adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a continuous/steady improvement (=happening slowly and gradually)
▪ The following two seasons saw a steady improvement in the team's performance.
continuous employment (=working all the time, without any periods being unemployed)
▪ You can join the pension scheme after two years of continuous employment with the company.
gradual/continuous evolution
▪ The social system is undergoing continuous evolution to adapt to these rapid changes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ During the next seventeen years Normand presided over massive and almost continuous expansion.
▪ These papillae form an almost continuous series with 4 or 5 similar papillae associated with the second oral tentacle pore.
▪ Dandelions are divided into thousands of distinct kinds, fitted to where they live and blended into an almost continuous series.
▪ From now on there was almost continuous warfare between them and the kings of Shoa.
▪ One is the accelerating rate of development in technological fields, which enforces almost continuous changes in products and processes.
▪ But from 1555 to 1602 there was almost continuous dispute.
▪ I spent what I assume was transition with an almost continuous pain in my left side and feeling sick as well.
less
▪ Etiquette requires more or less continuous competition among diners to keep one another's tea-cups topped up.
▪ Present and past were less continuous than synonymous.
▪ If the explosive activity is more or less continuous, then clearly ash will rise continuously.
▪ Indeed, increasing concern over inflation led to the operation of more or less continuous incomes policies during the 1970s.
■ NOUN
assessment
▪ B.Eds were about equally divided between continuous assessment and examinations, with some project work.
▪ Student performance will be judged on the basis of degree examination results, thesis and continuous assessment, following current University regulations.
▪ Against this, they will be making continuous assessments of the scale of current bank lending.
▪ On none of these courses was there any examination: continuous assessment was preferred.
▪ Many of our courses include a project in the continuous assessment element.
▪ The intrinsic discipline of the subject is conveyed through the course-work and teaching approach, while being monitored through continuous assessment.
▪ People only accumulate competencies by continuous assessment of skills they do in their day to day job.
▪ Student progress is monitored by means of continuous assessment on a range of practical exercises.
basis
▪ Financial information Information of a financial type is kept up-to-date by five of the six departments on a continuous basis.
▪ In this sense, the use of float is automatically optimized on a continuous basis.
▪ However, it will be unlikely that you could produce enough to satisfy the appetites of the Tangs on a continuous basis.
▪ Some are comprehensive and cover short-term exports on a continuous basis, others are tailored for specific contracts.
▪ But Mr Milburn warned that the Government would not be making resources available on a continuous basis to cut waiting lists.
▪ Effective promotional activity may then leave the retailer with little choice but to stock the brand on a continuous basis.
▪ A number of products or components are made at the same time, but not on a continuous basis.
change
▪ Formally, this could mean that there is continuous change, the music varying just as the words do.
▪ The world is full of continuous change, however, and predictive networks will need to handle time-varying data.
▪ The results may be mediocre, because continuous change results in lack of memorability.
▪ So how do you enhance your capacity to deal effectively with continuous change?
▪ The great thing about differential equations is that they produce nice smoothly continuous change in the quantities they describe.
▪ One is the accelerating rate of development in technological fields, which enforces almost continuous changes in products and processes.
development
▪ Foucault objects to historicism and Western humanism to the extent that they assume a continuous development, progress, and global totalization.
▪ The following characteristics of preoperational thought are necessary for continuous development.
▪ But the point is that once started, it is often a continuous development until one or both parties become losers.
employment
▪ Maternity leave does not break one's period of continuous employment and indeed it counts as part of that period.
▪ The continuous employment of proper symbols frees man to participate actively and fully in the dynamic totality of creation.
▪ Commonly geared to the demands of a constricted local market, not all these crafts could provide continuous employment.
▪ An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment.
▪ Redundancy An employee will not be eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has had two years' continuous employment.
flow
▪ Separation of the components on or in the stationary phase by a continuous flow of the mobile phase.
▪ In continuous flow analyzers, all Specimens flow through the Same tubing.
▪ We hoped for a continuous flow of information and exchange of art and culture between the two countries.
▪ Hence, carry-over or cross-contamination can occur in continuous flow analyzers if suitable precautions are not taken.
▪ The run-on lines create a continuous flow capturing the rush of Bedivere.
▪ From the holding silo grain passes over the continuous flow drier and any overflow travels back to the holding silos.
growth
▪ This policy halted the previously continuous growth of local authority tenancies and contributed to the overall increase in owner occupancy.
improvement
▪ Learning from experience is a recipe for continuous improvement.
▪ In Workplace 2000, every company will need world-class performance and continuous improvement to be successful.
▪ Known as Ford Q1, the programme provides a formal system for implementing continuous improvement methods which is recognised and accepted worldwide.
▪ By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks.
▪ Finally, there needs to be a commitment to continuous improvement through development.
▪ For a market economy to work, the population must be made to believe that it is in need of continuous improvement.
▪ An organisational commitment to continuous improvement of the skills of members 5.
▪ Establish measurement means to feed continuous improvement.
line
▪ They'd be going in one continuous line through the streets.
▪ The location of the perimeter of a square can be described by continuous lines.
▪ The continuous lines then come straight out from the pole and are pegged to the ground forming a triangle shape.
▪ The continuous line shows what the retailer hopes to sell this year.
▪ A row of closely spaced dots will look like a continuous line.
loop
▪ The tape is said to run in a continuous loop, a method of speeding up access time to data.
▪ Ink ribbons for dot-matrix printers are made in the form of a continuous loop.
▪ And the continuous loops put an end to tangled cords.
monitoring
▪ All patients had continuous monitoring of arterial pressure and urine output.
▪ This in conjunction with previous research would provide a continuous monitoring of the industry from the early sixties.
▪ Measurement of sodium concentrations is simple to perform and offers the possibility of prolonged continuous monitoring.
▪ The slow kinetics of antigen-antibody dissociation, unfortunately, precludes using antibodies in reversible sensors for continuous monitoring.
▪ Both systems offer continuous monitoring of alarm modules with data-logging and full communication between the system and the host computer.
▪ Another 23% did not make duty periods overlap to ensure continuous monitoring.
▪ They do not just generate data but enter into collaboration in the continuous monitoring of classroom activity and its effects.
operation
▪ Of course professional use is significantly more, but even than the actual period of continuous operation is deceptively low.
▪ Depending on use, these will last for between 60 and 90 minutes of continuous operation.
▪ This ensures cool and stable operation during continuous operation.
period
▪ Desertion Your wife has left you for a continuous period of two years.
▪ That the respondent has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition.
process
▪ Thus it ensures a continuous process of review covering all permissions.
▪ Revelation is a continuous process, confined to no one group and to no one age.
▪ By contrast coaching is a continuous process which may be incorporated into both counselling and appraisal sessions.
▪ Cognitive development, though a continuous process, can be divided into four stages for purposes of analysis and description.
▪ In the continuous process thus engendered one sees how true theory stimulates ideas about what may be, in realms as yet unexplored.
▪ As said previously, the socialization of behavior is a continuous process that begins in early childhood with simple imitations.
▪ New industrial methods based on assembly lines and continuous processes were typically more dependent on electricity than the ones they replaced.
▪ Piaget conceptualized development as a continuous process along a continuum.
series
▪ These papillae form an almost continuous series with 4 or 5 similar papillae associated with the second oral tentacle pore.
▪ And 6 percent is better than 5, 7 percent better than 6, and so on up the gradual, continuous series.
▪ Dandelions are divided into thousands of distinct kinds, fitted to where they live and blended into an almost continuous series.
▪ They may form a continuous series with the oral papillae as in the genus Ophiopristis.
▪ From here, there is a continuous series of gradations to gliding wings, and hence to flapping wings.
▪ There are two distal oral papillae on each side of the jaw forming a continuous series with the infradental papillae.
▪ The distal papillae appear to form a continuous series with the superficial tentacle scales of the second oral tentacle pore.
▪ The oral papillae form a continuous series, there are no significant gaps between the papillae.
service
▪ Perhaps continuous service as Leader of the Opposition would do.
▪ Payments are calculated on the basis of the worker's age, length of continuous service, and pay.
▪ The ferry was finally closed in 1964 after 600 years of continuous service apart from the short wartime break referred to.
▪ Only employees with two or more years' continuous service qualify for unfair dismissal rights.
speech
▪ Moreover, when words are spoken in continuous speech they often sound different from when spoken in isolation.
▪ Areas such as vision, continuous speech recognition and synthesis, and machine learning have been hard.
▪ The paper does not specify how a decision can be made about a word's identity during continuous speech.
▪ Possible applications are continuous speech recognition and commands to robot arms.
stream
▪ This behaviour is really a continuous stream of behaviours.
▪ And it organises a continuous stream of philosophical conferences.
▪ Don't just write a continuous stream of unorganised information.
▪ Mr Daubney had been busy with a continuous stream of traffic.
▪ The sisters had no money for food and medicines, but they received a continuous stream of charitable donations.
▪ The frequency of occurrence of each n-gram in a continuous stream of data constitutes the n-gram statistics of the data set.
supply
▪ Your new Thames Water charges still represent exceedingly good value for a continuous supply of water and our sewage services.
▪ Therefore, a continuous supply of newly fallen ancients is needed to maintain the long-term health and balanced composition of the forest.
▪ However, an accountant's professional work does not always amount to a continuous supply of services.
▪ One-off assignments, such as many bankruptcies, project evaluations and adhoc consultancy, are in fact often not continuous supplies of services.
use
▪ The relatively continuous use of standard system outputs to determine the necessity for corrective action.
▪ Suissa said the increased risk was 26 percent, even after a year of continuous use.
▪ The main purpose of these pads is to give the water a final polish and continuous use is not really obligatory.
▪ Most hypnotics appear to lose their sleep-promoting properties within three to fourteen days of continuous use.
▪ The material is in continuous use in the business. 3.
▪ A medical quality quartz tube surrounds the U/V tube which has a 5,000 hour continuous use life.
▪ We reserve the right to disconnect you after two hours continuous use and/or 10 minutes of inactivity during connection.
▪ A single charging of the batteries allows about 2.5 hours of continuous use.
variable
▪ The random haemoglobin A 1 value was a continuous variable, which was shown in a histogram to be approximately normally distributed.
▪ Laminin was the continuous variable for most statistical tests.
▪ Pearsons correlation coefficient was calculated to measure the association between continuous variables.
▪ Such continuous variables foster continuous and gradual evolution.
▪ Now, the thing about area is that it is a continuous variable.
▪ Birth weight and gestational age were included as continuous variables.
▪ The continuous variables knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about smoking were assessed on five scales.
▪ For continuous variables medians were used because the results lacked normal distribution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ continuous news coverage
▪ a continuous improvement in customer service
▪ a continuous trail along the ridge
▪ Although we nearly always need extra drivers, we cannot guarantee continuous employment.
▪ CNN provided continuous coverage of the trial.
▪ The campsites have had three decades of continuous use.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Classical elasticity assumes this to be the case and it has been very successful with continuous media.
▪ Executive Programmes cater for mainly company sponsored participants who attend residential programmes on a continuous or modular basis.
▪ Some are comprehensive and cover short-term exports on a continuous basis, others are tailored for specific contracts.
▪ The curd is cut, stirred, and heated with continuous stirring to separate curd and whey.
▪ The monotonous sound of the train was an invitation to float, the engine emitting smooth, continuous snorts and sneezes.
▪ The most interesting of Parnas's points was that there are two kinds of complex systems: continuous, and discontinuous.
▪ There was also an overall speeding up of things because of the continuous nature of automatic control.
▪ Ultimately systems should be designed with user involvement at every stage, on a continuous and evolutionary basis.