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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

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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.

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  • 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.

 

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