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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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;
• 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.
• 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.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• 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.