continuous

絶え間ない、連続した

止まったり休んだりせず、ずっと続いている。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： constant, uninterrupted, unbroken

反対語： intermittent

よく使う表現： continuous noise, continuous flow, continuous supply

途切れない、連続した

ある地点から別の地点まで、隙間や切れ目なくつながっている。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： unbroken, uninterrupted

反対語： broken

よく使う表現： continuous line, continuous surface, continuous strip

連続な

入力のわずかな変化に対して値もわずかに変わり、急な飛びがない。

やさしい英語で： 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?

使い方： continuous at a point (The function is continuous at every point in this interval.)

反対語： discontinuous

よく使う表現： continuous function, continuous map, continuous at something