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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Continuities

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[L.

continuitas

: cf. F.

continuité

. See

the state of being continuous; uninterrupted 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

(Math. & Physics)

the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states.

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Solution of continuity

(Math.)

See under

Noun.

[L.] Connection uninterrupted; cohesion; close union of parts; unbroken texture.

Philosophers talk of the solution of continuity.