continuity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The state of continuing steadily over time without interruption.

   Keeping the same teacher all year gives the children a sense of continuity.

2. 2
   noun

   Consistency between the different shots of a film or scenes of a story.

   A continuity error meant the actor's shirt changed colour between two shots.

Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.

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