continuity
noun
- lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ɪ.ti/ / /ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ti/ / [ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ɾi]
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.
- 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.”
“This new group looked like another of those which eked out a herbivorous existence in the scrubland just this side of the Monster Raving lunatic fringe, something akin to the continuity Liberal Party perhaps, or the yogic-flying, transcendentally meditating Natural Law Party.”
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.
- 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.
“The definition of a continuous function assumes that the function is already defined for x = a. If this is not the case, however, it is sometimes possible to assign such a value to the function for x = a that the condition of continuity shall be satisfied.”
- A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.
“In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.”
- A canon; one specific fictional universe within a multiverse.
“At a live filmed announcement at Midtown Comics in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso and executive editor Tom Brevoort announced a new status quo for the Marvel Universe, with worlds colliding to form a mish-mash of continuities that will be the setting for all Marvel comics from May 2015 onwards.”
- Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.
- The announcements and messages inserted by the broadcaster between programmes.