continuity /ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/noun 6adjective 1forms 1 noun6 •Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.While troubleshooting the heating and cooling system, we found a lack of continuity in a circuit that is normally closed.Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy. •A characteristic property of a continuous function. •A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories. •Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions. •A canon; one specific fictional universe within a multiverse. •The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes. adjective1 •(UK) Being the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and usually claiming to be the same entity.The irony that was one of the other republican splinter groups in the field, the Continuity IRA, also claimed by virtue of its name that it was the authentic IRA. — 1999 formscontinuities
