CONTINUITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does continuity mean? 

• CONTINUITY (noun)
  The noun CONTINUITY has 3 senses:

1. uninterrupted connection or union

2. a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot

3. the property of a continuous and connected period of time

  Familiarity information: CONTINUITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTINUITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uninterrupted connection or union

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("continuity" is a kind of...):

coherence; coherency; cohesion; cohesiveness (the state of cohering or sticking together)

Antonym:

discontinuity (lack of connection or continuity)

Derivation:

continuous (continuing in time or space without interruption)

continuous (of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("continuity" is a kind of...):

book; playscript; script (a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The property of a continuous and connected period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

continuity; persistence

Hypernyms ("continuity" is a kind of...):

durability; enduringness; lastingness; strength (permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force)

Attribute:

continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)

Derivation:

continuous (continuing in time or space without interruption)

 Context examples 

A traumatic or pathologic injury to the humerus in which the continuity of the humerus is broken.

(Humerus Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of traumatic injury to the hip in which the continuity of either the femoral head, femoral neck, intertrochanteric or subtrochanteric regions is broken.

(Hip Fracture, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Traumatic or pathological injury to the hip in which the continuity of either the femoral head, femoral neck, intertrochanteric or subtrochanteric regions is broken.

(Hip Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

There seems to be through it all some thread of continuity....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.

(Injury, NCI Thesaurus)

The primary esophageal tumor is not in continuity with the metastatic lesion.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

Epithelial continuity depends on a family of small abundant secreted proteins, the trefoil factors (TFFs).

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The primary gastric tumor is not in continuity with the metastatic lesion.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Stomach, NCI Thesaurus)

A traumatic or pathologic injury to the femur in which the continuity of the fibula is broken.

(Fibula Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)

A traumatic injury to the bone in which the continuity of the bone is broken.

(Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)