Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not interrupted; not broken; unintermitted; unceasing; incessant; specifically, in botany, consisting of regularly increasing or diminishing parts, or of parts all of the same size.

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  • adjective continuing with no interruption

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective continuing in time or space without interruption
  • adjective having undisturbed continuity

Etymologies

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un- +‎ interrupted

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Examples

  • The 70-year-old urged fellow researchers and cosmology enthusiasts to encourage public interest in space and to keep going there to witness what he described as the "uninterrupted views of our vast and beautiful universe".

    unknown title 2012

  • You play as ... well, that's never revealed, and since it's all in uninterrupted first-person, you've no way of finding out.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • It was this behavior — the endless willingness of lenders to lend and borrowers to borrow — that kept the consumer economy humming uninterrupted from the early 1990s, straight through the brief recession of 2001, until the credit meltdown of 2007.

    The Death of the Credit Card Economy | Disinformation 2008

  • After all our constitution is a thing which has been in constant development since the day the last Roman Legionary left our shores running almost uninterrupted from the early days of the petty Kingdoms to the present day.

    Archive 2007-05-13 2007

  • To finish a book uninterrupted is one of life's luxuries and if I know it's unlikely to happen I'll put it down five pages from the end and come back to it rather than spoil that moment.

    40 entries from September 2007 2007

  • Doctors at the FDA have been looking at the long-term uninterrupted use of Rituxan as a potential factor in PML.

    FDA Weighs the Risks of Rituxan 2009

  • To finish a book uninterrupted is one of life's luxuries and if I know it's unlikely to happen I'll put it down five pages from the end and come back to it rather than spoil that moment.

    Bookerthon 2007 - Gifted by Nikita Lalwani 2007

  • To finish a book uninterrupted is one of life's luxuries and if I know it's unlikely to happen I'll put it down five pages from the end and come back to it rather than spoil that moment.

    Bookerthon 2007 - Gifted by Nikita Lalwani 2007

  • Dr. Fiore recommends learning to work in short uninterrupted half-hour time segments.

    5 Tips for Writers to Overcome Procrastination and Increase Productivity 2007

  • The escaramuza routine is made up of a dozen individual exercises presented in uninterrupted succession.

    My Life As An Escaramuza Mom 2004

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