Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent. synonym: continual.
- adjective Attached together in repeated units.
- adjective Of or relating to a line or curve that extends without a break or irregularity.
- adjective 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by continuity; not affected by disconnection of parts or interruption of sequence; having uninterrupted extent, substance, or existence; unbroken.
- Unintermitted, or constantly renewed; continual.
- In botany, not deviating from uniformity: the reverse of interrupted. Thus, a stem which has no joints is said to be continuous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended.
- adjective (Bot.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- adjective (Railroad) a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine.
- adjective See
Impost .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
break ,cessation , orinterruption ; withoutintervening time. - adjective Without intervening space;
continued ;protracted ;extended . - adjective botany Not
deviating orvarying fromuniformity ; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. - adjective analysis, of a function Such that, for every in the
domain , for each smallopen interval about , there's an interval containing whoseimage is in . - adjective mathematics, more generally, of a function Such that each
open set in therange has an openpreimage . - adjective grammar Expressing an ongoing action or state.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective continuing in time or space without interruption
- adjective of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Ms. Stone uses the phrase "continuous partial attention" to describe complex multitasking.
Multitasking: More Is Less Ruth Mantell 2011
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The term continuous tone used to describe the style of singing desired is meant literally.
The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard
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The social critic Linda Stone has coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the fractured way we now focus.
Tony Schwartz: Take Back Your Attention Tony Schwartz 2011
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The social critic Linda Stone has coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the fractured way we now focus.
Tony Schwartz: Take Back Your Attention Tony Schwartz 2011
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The social critic Linda Stone has coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the fractured way we now focus.
Tony Schwartz: Take Back Your Attention Tony Schwartz 2011
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The social critic Linda Stone has coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the fractured way we now focus.
Tony Schwartz: Take Back Your Attention Tony Schwartz 2011
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The social critic Linda Stone has coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the fractured way we now focus.
Tony Schwartz: Take Back Your Attention Tony Schwartz 2011
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In fact, radio and audio in general work really well with our increasingly multitasked lives…what someone termed continuous partial attention.
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A bump overnight, a seismic shift in the earth caused by the mountain kind of settling over the mine, shifted some earth, and it damaged what they call a continuous miner.
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Thursday what he described as the continuous harassment and intimidation of CUF supporters as they tried to register for the polls and then take their campaign into the countryside.
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