continuity
/ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːəti/ · con.tin.u.i.ty
noun
- Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time. Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.
- A characteristic property of a continuous function. The mathematician studied the continuity of the function to understand its behavior.
- A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories. The TV show used continuity to explain the characters' backstories and motivations.
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Did you know? The concept of continuity has been used in various fields, including mathematics, physics, and literature, to describe the unbroken flow of events or properties.