adj. 1. Uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent. See Synonyms at continual. 2. Attached together in repeated units: a continuous form fed into a printer. 3. Mathematics a. Of or relating to a line or curve that extends without a break or irregularity. b. Of or relating to a function between two topological spaces such that the preimage of any open set in the range is an open set in the domain. con·tinu·ous·ly adv. con·tinu·ous·ness n. |
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