- [uncountable] the fact of not stopping or not changing
- to ensure/provide/maintain continuity of fuel supplies
Extra Examples- After twelve or thirteen centuries of unbroken continuity the landscape was being changed out of all recognition.
- More liaison between the old manager and the new one should ensure greater continuity.
- To ensure continuity of care, it is better for a single doctor to treat the patient.
- We aim to give children a sense of continuity.
- historical continuity in the feminist movement
- the need for continuity of employment
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- greater
- remarkable
- unbroken
- …
- ensure
- establish
- give somebody/something
- …
- continuity between
- continuity in
- continuity of
- …
- a lack of continuity
- a need for continuity
- a sense of continuity
- …
- [uncountable, countable] a logical connection between the parts of something, or between two things
- The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
- There are obvious continuities between diet and health.
Extra Examples- The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.
- She is anxious to stress the continuity with the past in this new work.
- There is often a lack of continuity between one government and the next.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- greater
- remarkable
- unbroken
- …
- ensure
- establish
- give somebody/something
- …
- continuity between
- continuity in
- continuity of
- …
- a lack of continuity
- a need for continuity
- a sense of continuity
- …
- [uncountable] (specialist) the organization of a film or television programme, especially making sure that people’s clothes, objects, etc. are the same from one scene to the nextTopics Film and theatrec2
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French continuite, from Latin continuitas, from continuare ‘continue’, from continuus ‘uninterrupted’, from continere ‘hang together’ (from con- ‘together with’ + tenere ‘hold’).
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