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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uninterrupted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
view
▪ But beyond that intimate corner was a wall of translucent glass, giving an uninterrupted view of the mountains.
▪ At that point he needs to have an uninterrupted view of the audience and they need a clear view of him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
uninterrupted coverage of the press conference
▪ Banks need uninterrupted, 24-hour computer systems.
▪ On average, two-year-old children need ten to twelve hours of uninterrupted sleep a night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even if a bigger corporate fish gobbles it up, your service should continue uninterrupted.
▪ He had the prospect of four years or so of uninterrupted power.
▪ He spoke uninterrupted for two hours and six minutes.
▪ Ray Romano is trying to give a reporter a few uninterrupted minutes of his time.
▪ The battle began at three in the morning and continued uninterrupted until past daybreak.
▪ When uninterrupted by unforeseen or unrecognized obstacles, parents will go to great lengths to provide these advantages for their children.
▪ With increased demands from users who want clear and uninterrupted service, companies are moving quickly to install equipment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uninterrupted

c.1600, "continuous;" 1650s, "undisturbed," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of interrupt. Related: Uninterruptedly.

Wiktionary
uninterrupted

a. continuing with no interruption

WordNet
uninterrupted
  1. adj. having undisturbed continuity; "a convalescent needs uninterrupted sleep"

  2. continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "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" [syn: continuous] [ant: discontinuous]

Usage examples of "uninterrupted".

This, with a well paid rental of upwards of L100,000 per annum, makes the life of this happy pair pass in an uninterrupted stream of fashionable felicity.

The officialese flowing now like a broad, uninterrupted stream, but not quite because of habit.

He presupposed a progressive gradation, an unbroken process of improvement, an uninterrupted continuum of beings which could form themselves upon one another.

The guards would telephone the resuscitation room, where three physicians and a number of nurses and technicians were maintaining uninterrupted surveillanceover Coban.

Off to the north there was a long uninterrupted line of sight over to the middle-class suburbs of Serpolet and Gallmarch, the militia tower of St.

Because of the uninterrupted sorties and the stiff fighting we have done since Stalingrad, we are greatly reduced in the number of aircraft we can daily put in the air.

Hegu, and Southmost Cape, and another day saw them entering the Worldround Ocean, that huge sea where currents flowed around the planet uninterrupted by continental masses.

But it had a comfortable looking couch, chests of drawers and an unfrosted window that gave a wonderfully uninterrupted view right up through the valley.

He who asserts the doctrine of Necessity means that, contemplating the events which compose the moral and material universe, he beholds only an immense and uninterrupted chain of causes and effects, no one of which could occupy any other place than it does occupy, or act in any other place than it does act.

The house was so situated as to command an uninterrupted view of Greylock Mountain and the adjacent hills.

We had left the beach early in the morning, and after an uninterrupted, though at times difficult and dangerous ascent, during which we had never once turned our faces to the sea, we found ourselves, about three hours before sunset, standing on the top of what seemed to be the highest land on the island, an immense overhanging cliff composed of basaltic rocks, hung round with parasitical plants.

These venerable gentlemen, who I presume were the priests, kept up an uninterrupted monotonous chant, which was partly drowned in the roar of drums.

Their marvellous whiteness of the teeth is to be ascribed to the pure vegetable diet of these people, and the uninterrupted healthfulness of their natural mode of life.

Whenever my gentle Fayaway and Kory-Kory, laying themselves down beside me, would leave me awhile to uninterrupted repose, I took a strange interest in the slightest movements of the eccentric old warrior.

Thorle was primed with an ample succession of stories and themes, chiefly concerning poverty, thriftlessness, reclamation, reformed characters, and so forth, which carried him in an almost uninterrupted sequence through the remainder of the dinner.