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Roget's Thesaurus

#69. Continuity

[Uninterrupted sequence.]

Nouns

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.

Verbs

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.

Adjectives

continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial, successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row etc. n.; uninterrupted, unintermitting; unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence) 604a; perennial, evergreen; constant.

Adverbs

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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