continuity

Roget category 69

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.4. Order
›› 1.4.2. Consecutive order

#69. [Uninterrupted sequence.] Continuity

noun

continuity — consecution, consecutiveness etc. adj. — succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain — catenation, concatenation — scale — gradation, course — ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.
procession, column — retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array.
pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race — ancestry, descent, family, house — line, line of ancestors — strain.
rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team — suit — colonnade.

verb

follow in a series, form a series etc. n. — fall in.
arrange in a series, collate etc. n. — string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.

adjective

continuous, continued — consecutive — progressive, gradual — serial, successive — immediate, unbroken, entire — linear — in a line, in a row etc. n. — uninterrupted, unintermitting^† — unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence) 604.1; perennial, evergreen — constant.

adverb

continuously etc. adj. — seriatim — in a line etc. n. — in succession, in turn — running, gradually, step by step, gradatim [Lat.], at a stretch — in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.

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