Word Meanings - CONTINUITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
Additional info about word: CONTINUITY
the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity , the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. -- Solution of continuity. See under Solution.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTINUITY)
- Concatenation
- Linking
- connection
- stringing
- continuity
- Contact
- Touch
- contiguity
- apposition
- adjunction
- Continuation
- Sequence
- continuance
- duration
- succession
- extension
- prolongation
- perpetuation
- concatenation
- Course
- Order
- sequence
- direction
- progress
- line
- way
- mode
- race
- career
- road
- route
- series
- passage
- round
- manner
- plan
- conduct
- method
- Line
- Cord
- thread
- length
- outline
- row
- verse
- course
Related words: (words related to CONTINUITY)
- ROUNDWORM
A nematoid worm. - VERSET
A verse. Milton. - ROUNDISH
Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n. - VERSEMAN
See PRIOR - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - APPOSITION
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic - SERIES DYNAMO
A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others. - LINKS
A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander. - ROUNDFISH
Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska. - PROGRESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress. - CONTINUITY
the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity - LENGTHEN
To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden. - PROGRESS
to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase. - ROUND-UP
The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. - COURSED
1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry. - LENGTHFUL
Long. Pope. - COURSE
1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. - METHOD
Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course; - CONTACTION
Act of touching. - SERIES MOTOR
A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit. - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - NAVEL-STRING
The umbilical cord. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - RECONTINUANCE
The act or state of recontinuing. - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - BLINK-EYED
Habitually winking. Marlowe. - AVERSENESS
The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - ENLINK
To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.