continuity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=ti=nu=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

continuity, n. [L. continuitas: cf. F. continuité. See Continuous.].

 the state of being continuous; uninterrupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.  Grew.  [1913 Webster]
"The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects."  [1913 Webster]

Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. -- Solution of continuity. (Math.) See under Solution.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

continuity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the state of being continuous. b an unbroken succession. c a logical sequence.
2 the detailed and self-consistent scenario of a film or broadcast.
3 the linking of broadcast items.

Idiom

continuity girl (or man) the person responsible for agreement of detail between different sessions of filming.

Etymology

F continuit{eacute} f. L continuitas -tatis (as CONTINUOUS)

THESAURUS

continuity

accordance, action, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, book, calm, catastrophe, ceaselessness, characterization, chattering, chronology, color, coming after, complication, connectedness, connection, consecution, consecutiveness, consistency, consonance, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuance, continuation, contrivance, correspondence, cue, degree, denouement, descent, design, development, device, duration, duree, endurance, episode, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, evenness, extension, fable, falling action, following, gimmick, gradation, hierarchy, homogeneity, incessancy, incident, lastingness, lengthening, libretto, line, lineage, lines, local color, logical sequence, maintenance, monolithism, mood, motif, movement, mythos, noninterruption, order, order of succession, orderliness, oscillation, period, peripeteia, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, place, plan, playbook, plot, posteriority, postposition, procession, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, psychological time, pulsation, pursuance, quick fire, rank, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, recognition, regularity, repetition, rising action, rotation, run, scenario, scene plot, scheme, score, script, secondary plot, sequence, serial order, series, shooting script, side, slant, space, space-time, stability, staccato, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, story, straight course, structure, stuttering, subject, subjunction, subordination, subplot, succession, successiveness, suffixation, sustained action, sustainment, sustenance, switch, tattoo, tense, term, text, the future, the past, the present, thematic development, theme, tide, time, timebinding, tone, topic, twist, uniformity, unintermission, uninterrupted course, uninterruption, unity, unremittingness, unruffledness, vibration, way, while

ROGET THESAURUS

continuity

Continuity

N continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade, continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence), perennial, evergreen, constant, continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.