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- Word comparison: continuous vs. discontinuous
continuous vs. discontinuous
adjective
- uninterrupted in time; without cessation:
continuous coughing during the concert.
- being in immediate connection or spatial relationship:
a continuous series of blasts; a continuous row of warehouses.
- Grammar. progressive ( def 7 ).
adjective
- not continuous; broken; interrupted; intermittent:
a discontinuous chain of mountains; a discontinuous argument.
- Mathematics. (of a function at a point) not continuous at the point.