continuity

con·ti·nu·i·ty  (knt-n-t, -ny-)

n. pl. con·ti·nu·i·ties

1. The state or quality of being continuous.

2. An uninterrupted succession or flow; a coherent whole.

3.

a. A detailed script or scenario consulted to avoid discrepancies from shot to shot in a film, allowing the various scenes to be shot out of order.

b. Spoken matter serving to link parts of a radio or television program so that no break occurs.

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continuity [ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. logical sequence, cohesion, or connection

2. a continuous or connected whole

3. (Performing Arts) the comprehensive script or scenario of detail and movement in a film or broadcast

4. (Performing Arts) the continuous projection of a film, using automatic rewind

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Continuity 

See Also: PERMANENCE

1. As never ending as a brook —Anon
2. Bottomless as Hell —Ben Jonson
3. Bottomless as the foundation of the Universe —Thomas Carlyle
4. Boundless as the sea —William Shakespeare
5. Boundless as the wind —Jonathan Swift
6. (Restaurants) come and go steadily as Bedouin tribesmen —Ed McBain
7. A constant figure in her life, like a white knight or a black mammy —Julia Whedon
8. Continued as on an endless escalator —Eleanor Clark
9. Continuous as an endless circle —Anon
10. Continuous as the beat of death —Amy Lowell
11. Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way —William Wordsworth

    A variation: “Infinite as the stars”

12. Endless as prairies —Margaret Atwood
13. Endless as the line around a circle —Anon
14. Eternal as mediocrity —James G. Huneker
15. (She was, for him,) eternal like the seasons —Dorothea Straus
16. Go on like an eternal flame —Lyn Lifshin
17. Had gone on like a bad sleep —Jean Stafford
18. Keeps rolling along like the Big River —John Gross
19. Lived on like names in a legend —John Hall Wheelock
20. Numberless as the sands of the desert —American colloquialism

    An equally popular variation is “Numberless as the fish in the sea.”

21. Steadily as a shell secretes its beating leagues of monotone —Hart Crane
22. Timeless as a churchyard —Sharon Sheehe Stark

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	continuity - uninterrupted connection or union coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness - the state of cohering or sticking together discontinuity - lack of connection or continuity
	2.	continuity - a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot playscript, script, book - a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
	3.	continuity - the property of a continuous and connected period of time persistence durability, enduringness, lastingness, strength - permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products"

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continuity

noun cohesion, flow, connection, sequence, succession, progression, wholeness, interrelationship They want to ensure that standardization of methods and continuity of ideas will be achieved.

Translations

continuity [ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪ]

A. N → continuidad f

B. CPD continuity man/girl N (Cine) → secretario/a m/f de rodaje

continuity [ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪti] n

[approach, supply] → continuité f

(CINEMA) (in filming) → script m
continuity announcer n → speaker(ine) m/f, annonceur/euse m/f
continuity girl n (CINEMA) → script-girl f

continuity

n

→ Kontinuität f; the story lacks continuity → der Geschichte fehlt der rote Faden

(Film) → Anschluss m; (Rad) → (verbindende) Ansagen pl

continuity [ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪ] n → continuità (Cine) → (ordine m della) sceneggiatura