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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| continuous (kənˈtɪnjʊəs) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | prolonged without interruption; unceasing: a continuous noise |
| 2. | in an unbroken series or pattern |
| 3. | maths Compare discontinuous See also limit (of a function or curve) changing gradually in value as the variable changes in value. A function f is continuous if at every value a of the independent variable the difference between f(x) and f(a) approaches zero as x approaches a |
| 4. | statistics Compare discrete (of a variable) having a continuum of possible values so that its distribution requires integration rather than summation to determine its cumulative probability |
| 5. | grammar another word for progressive |
| [C17: from Latin continuus, from continēre to hold together, | |
| usage Both continual and continuous can be used to say that something continues without interruption, but only continual can correctly be used to say that something keeps happening repeatedly | |
| con'tinuously | |
| —adv | |
| con'tinuousness | |
| —n | |