Continuity

Continuity may refer to:

In mathematics:

• The opposing concept to discreteness; common examples include:
  • Continuous probability distribution or random variable in probability and statistics
  • Continuous game, a generalization of games used in game theory
  • Law of Continuity, a heuristic principle of Gottfried Leibniz
• Continuous function; in particular:
  • Continuity (topology), a generalization to functions between topological spaces
  • Scott continuity, for functions between posets
  • Continuity (set theory), for functions between ordinals
  • Continuity (category theory), for functors
  • Graph continuity, for payoff functions in game theory
• Continuity theorem may refer to one of two results:
  • Lévy's continuity theorem on random variables
  • Kolmogorov continuity theorem on stochastic processes
• In geometry:
  • Parametric continuity, for parametrised curves
  • Geometric continuity, a concept primarily applied to the conic sections and related shapes
• Continuity equation for application in electromagnetic theory, fluid dynamics and quantum mechanics

Other uses:

• Ethnography and ethnic nationalism: see indigenism
• Materials science: Colloids and related matters in which there may be different substances in contact with each other, some of the substances in the form of dispersed particles (the "dispersed phase") and others as a matrix without internal boundaries (the "continuous phase").
  • Paleolithic Continuity Theory
  • Uralic Continuity Theory
  • Protochronism
• Health care continuity
• Continuity (album), an album by electronic indie group Wedlock
• Continuity of Operations Plan
• Continuity (fiction), the consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer
• Continuity supervisor or script supervisor, a member of a film crew responsible for maintaining continuity of the motion picture
• Continuity (broadcasting), messages (other than advertisements) played by broadcasters between programmes
• An unbroken electrical path in an electrical circuit or connector

See also

• Continuum (disambiguation)
• Contiguity

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