continuous

continuo, ininterrumpido

Que sigue ocurriendo sin detenerse ni hacer pausas.

En inglés sencillo: Happening all the time without stopping or taking a break.

• The noise was continuous.
• We had three days of continuous rain.
• The machine needs a continuous supply of water.

Sinónimos: constant, uninterrupted, unbroken

Antónimos: intermittent

Expresiones frecuentes: continuous noise, continuous flow, continuous supply

continuo, sin interrupciones

Que se extiende de un punto a otro sin huecos ni separaciones entre sus partes.

En inglés sencillo: Extending from one point to another without any gaps or spaces between parts.

• Draw one continuous line.
• The tiles form a continuous surface.
• A continuous wall runs along the road.

Sinónimos: unbroken, uninterrupted

Antónimos: broken

Expresiones frecuentes: continuous line, continuous surface, continuous strip

continuo

Se dice de una función cuyos valores cambian poco cuando la entrada cambia poco, sin saltos bruscos.

En inglés sencillo: Describing a mathematical function that preserves closeness, with no sudden jumps in its values.

• This function is continuous.
• Every continuous map has an open preimage for each open set.
• Is the function continuous at zero?

Cómo se usa: continuous at a point (The function is continuous at every point in this interval.)

Antónimos: discontinuous

Expresiones frecuentes: continuous function, continuous map, continuous at something