Continuous vs. Successive — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Continuous and Successive
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Continuous
Uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent.
Successive
Following in uninterrupted order; consecutive
On three successive days.
Continuous
Attached together in repeated units
A continuous form fed into a printer.
Successive
Of, characterized by, or involving succession
The government successive to the fallen monarchy.
Continuous
Of or relating to a line or curve that extends without a break or irregularity.
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Successive
Coming one after the other in a series.
They had won the title for five successive years.
Continuous
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.
Successive
Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary.
A successive title; a successive empire
Continuous
Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
A continuous current of electricity
Successive
(grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.
Continuous
Without intervening space; continued.
A continuous line of railroad
Successive
Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
Send the successive ills through ages down.
Continuous
(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
Successive
Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
Continuous
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.
Successive
In regular succession without gaps;
Serial concerts
Continuous
Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
Continuous
(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
Continuous
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.
He can hear its continuous murmur.
Continuous
Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
Continuous
Continuing in time or space without interruption;
A continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light
A continuous bout of illness lasting six months
Lived in continuous fear
A continuous row of warehouses
A continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it
Moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks
Continuous
Of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
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