continuity

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun uninterrupted connection or union
  2. noun a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot
  3. noun the property of a continuous and connected period of time

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.

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