continuously
Americanadverb
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without interruption or cessation; unceasingly.
To remain eligible for scholarship aid, a student must remain continuously enrolled at an educational institution located in the state.
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in a directly connected way.
A mountainous spine, the Great Dividing Range, extends almost continuously from Far North Queensland to Victoria.
Other Word Forms
- noncontinuously adverb
- quasi-continuously adverb
- semicontinuously adverb
- uncontinuously adverb
Etymology
Origin of continuously
Example Sentences
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He further explained that complicated questions in the competition force the programme to its limits and has inspired developers to continuously improve the programme accordingly through new features such as Copilot.
From BBC
Dragon Hatchling imbues AI with memory that large language models can’t match, according to Pathway, theoretically enabling a new class of continuously learning, adaptive AI systems.
In other words, the coronagraph acts like an artificial Moon, blocking the Sun's bright surface to let scientists continuously observe its faint outer corona -something the real Moon does only during eclipses.
From BBC
"What we choose to remember is a continuously evolving process rather than a one-time flipping of a switch."
From Science Daily
Currently, employers face additional legal hurdles if they want to sack employees who have been in their role continuously for two years.
From BBC
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