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  • Word comparison: continuous vs. discontinuous

continuous vs. discontinuous

adjective

  1. uninterrupted in time; without cessation.

    continuous coughing during the concert.

  2. being in immediate connection or spatial relationship.

    a continuous series of blasts; a continuous row of warehouses.

  3. Grammar.,  progressive.

adjective

  1. not continuous; broken; interrupted; intermittent.

    a discontinuous chain of mountains; a discontinuous argument.

  2. Mathematics.,  (of a function at a point) not continuous at the point.