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Webster 1913 Edition
Continuous
1.
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended;
as, a
. continuous
line of railroad; a continuous
current of electricityhe can hear its
continuous
murmur. Longfellow.
2.
(Bot.)
Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
Syn. –
Continuous
, Continual
. Continuous is the stronger word, and denotes that the continuity or union of parts is absolute and uninterrupted; as, a continuous sheet of ice; a continuous flow of water or of argument. So
Daniel Webster
speaks of “a continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.” Continual, in most cases, marks a close and unbroken succession of things, rather than absolute continuity. Thus we speak of continual showers, implying a repetition with occasional interruptions; we speak of a person as liable to continual calls, or as subject to continual applications for aid, etc. See Constant
. Webster 1828 Edition
Continuous
CONTINUOUS
,Adj.