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continuity (iou)



continuity noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French continuite from Latin continuitas, from continuare: see CONTINUE, -ITY.]
The state or quality of being continuous; connectedness; unbroken succession; logical sequence. LME.
law of continuity: that all changes in nature are continuous, not abrupt. solution of continuity the fact or condition of being or becoming discontinuous; fracture; rupture; (orig. Medicine with ref. to injury to the body).
Wellington The continuity of the frontier. J. Berger Neither by way of his children..nor by way of society can he find any sense of succession or continuity.
A continuous or connected whole; an unbroken course or series. E17.
Coleridge A chain that ascends in a continuity of links.
Uninterrupted duration. rare. M17.
D. Brewster The severity and continuity of his studies.
A detailed scenario of a film; the maintenance of consistency or of a continuous flow of action in a cinema or television sequence; (commentary etc. providing) linkage between items in a broadcast. E20.
Comb.: continuity girl, continuity man, etc., Cinematography: responsible for ensuring the necessary agreement of detail between different filmings.