The Collaborative International Dictionary
Continuity \Con`ti*nu"i*ty\, n.; pl. Continuities. [L.
continuitas: cf. F. continuit['e]. See Continuous.]
the state of being continuous; uninterrupted connection or
succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the
continuity of fibers.
--Grew.
The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a
continuity of glittering objects.
--Dryden.
Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states.
Solution of continuity. (Math.) See under Solution. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. (plural of continuity English)
Usage examples of "continuities".
Foucault himself abandoned the extreme relativism of this "archaeological" endeavor and subsumed it in a more balanced approach (that would include continuities as well as abrupt discontinuities.
Failing thus, we ought to let the originally given continuities stand on their own bottom.
In all this the continuities and the discontinuities are absolutely co-ordinate matters of immediate feeling.
Where the continuities between the earlier and later fiction stand out most clearly is in Gaddis's previous depictions of artists and writerscharacters who, through their appetite for destruction and self-destruction, fail on their own terms.
It's no more absurd than any of the other institutional continuities with Earth that abound in the Second Sphere, but it strikes Matt as simultaneously ridiculous and magnificent.