CONTINUOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does continuously mean? 

• CONTINUOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONTINUOUSLY has 2 senses:

1. at every point

2. with unflagging resolve

  Familiarity information: CONTINUOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTINUOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At every point

Context example:

The function is continuously differentiable

Pertainym:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

With unflagging resolve

Synonyms:

ceaselessly; continuously; endlessly; incessantly; unceasingly; unendingly

Context example:

dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste

Pertainym:

continuous (continuing in time or space without interruption)

 Context examples 

Upon intraperitoneal delivery, paclitaxel PPE microspheres slowly and continuously dissolve and deliver paclitaxel to the tumor site, where it binds to tubulin and inhibits the dynamics of disassembly-assembly of microtubules.

(Paclitaxel PPE Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)

A frequency equal to half the sampling rate used in digitizing a continuously varying process.

(Nyquist Frequency, NCI Thesaurus)

Voyager 2, the longest continuously operated spacecraft, is about 15 billion kilometers away from our sun.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

The mice overate during these phases so that their overall calorie intake was similar to mice continuously fed a regular diet.

(Health Effects of a Diet that Mimics Fasting, NIH)

A type of culture in which cells are grown and are continuously fed new culture media.

(Perfusion Culture, NCI Thesaurus)

Often, the wearer will input a signal which is used as an event marker when they feel symptoms such as tachycardia, as the device continuously records cardiac activity.

(Cardiac Event Monitor, NCI Thesaurus)

Point mutations within the K-RAS gene inactivate GTPase activity and the p21-RAS protein continuously transmits growth signals to the nucleus.

(Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A recording device or display that continuously keeps track of the function, condition, or operation of the system or organism and warns of an abnormal or potentially dangerous situation.

(Monitoring Device, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with the inability of a device and/or device components to allow a current of electricity to pass or to conduct electricity continuously along an electrical path.

(Failure to Conduct Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

On the leading strand, replication occurs continuously in a 5 to 3 direction, whereas on the lagging strand, DNA replication occurs discontinuously by synthesis and joining of short Okazaki fragments.

(DNA Replication Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)