continuity.

1. An unbroken connection, persistence or succession linking parts, stages or periods.

2. The property of a function whose values approach its value at a point as the input approaches that point.

3. Consistency of actions, appearance and other details across shots or scenes intended to belong to one sequence.

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Words that belong together

• continuity of service
• historical continuity

On the page

Continuity of service depended on transferring responsibilities before the old office closed.

The historian found continuity in administrative practice despite a change in political language.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Singular continuity; plural continuities. Often also uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: definition, comparison, qualification, causal analysis. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, general research. Commonness: moderately common.