Continuous vs. Consecutive — What's the Difference?

Uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent.

Following each other continuously

Attached together in repeated units

Expressing consequence or result

Of or relating to a line or curve that extends without a break or irregularity.

Denoting intervals of the same kind (especially fifths or octaves) occurring in succession between two parts or voices.

Of or relating to a function between two topological spaces such that the preimage of any open set in the range is an open set in the domain.

Following one after another without interruption; successive

Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.

Marked by logical sequence.

Without intervening space; continued.

(Grammar) Expressing consequence or result

(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Following, in succession, without interruption

Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.

Having some logical sequence

Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).

A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval.

(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.

A linguistic form that implies or describes an event that follows temporally from another.

Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.

Consecutive interpretation.

Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

Continuing in time or space without interruption;

Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.

Of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity

Having similarity of sequence; - said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.

In regular succession without gaps;

Successive (without a break);

One after the other;

In a consecutive manner;