continuous

continu, ininterrompu

Qui se poursuit sans s’arrêter ni faire de pause.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : constant, uninterrupted, unbroken

Contraires : intermittent

Expressions courantes : continuous noise, continuous flow, continuous supply

continu, ininterrompu

Qui s’étend d’un point à un autre sans espace ni coupure entre ses parties.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : unbroken, uninterrupted

Contraires : broken

Expressions courantes : continuous line, continuous surface, continuous strip

continu

Se dit d’une fonction dont la valeur varie peu quand l’entrée varie peu, sans saut brusque.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : continuous at a point (The function is continuous at every point in this interval.)

Contraires : discontinuous

Expressions courantes : continuous function, continuous map, continuous at something