Continuity vs. Coherence — What's the Difference?

The unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over time

The quality or state of cohering, especially a logical, orderly, and aesthetically consistent relationship of parts.

The maintenance of continuous action and self-consistent detail in the various scenes of a film or broadcast

(Physics) The property of being coherent, as of waves.

The state or quality of being continuous.

The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency.

An uninterrupted succession or flow; a coherent whole.

The quality of forming a unified whole.

A detailed script or scenario consulted to avoid discrepancies from shot to shot in a film, allowing the various scenes to be shot out of order.

A logical arrangement of parts, as in writing.

Spoken matter serving to link parts of a radio or television program so that no break occurs.

The property of having the same wavelength and phase.

Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.

A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.

A characteristic property of a continuous function.

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

(narratology) A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.

Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; a logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; consecutiveness.

Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.

The state of cohering.

The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.

The state of cohering or sticking together

The state of being continuous; uninterrupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.

Logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts

Uninterrupted connection or union

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

The property of a continuous and connected period of time