continuity

6 definitions • 15 examples

the fact of something continuing for a long period of time without being changed or stopped:

There has been no continuity in that class - they've had six different teachers.

They value tradition and continuity more than innovation.

She highlights the continuities in Indigenous cultures.

the fact that different episodes (= parts) of a story told in a television programme, a series of books or films, etc. connect with each other in a way that makes sense:

You can skip this chapter without loss of continuity.

The story may be a single sustained narrative or a series of shorter ones, but it should have continuity.

The focus on the activities and adventures of the group gives continuity throughout the series.

What was missing was a sense of continuity; the work sounded like a series of disconnected pieces.

The biographer traces continuities among the poems.

a particular story or connected set of stories about the same world or characters in a video game, film, television programme, etc.:

There are multiple continuities in the Tomb Raider series as the movies and comic books have significant differences from the games.

The movies share core characters with the video games, but those characters don't share any unified continuity.

the way in which different parts of a film or television programme are joined together so that the action happens without any pause or change:

As script supervisor she is responsible for continuity from scene to scene.

There was a small continuity error where the vase on the table vanished from one shot to the next.

on television and radio, information, messages, etc. that are broadcast in between the programmes:

Continuity might include descriptions of or content warnings about the programme immediately following.

What's that music they always play during their continuity announcements?

the state of continuing over time, esp. without change or interruption:

He argued that the country needed to maintain some continuity in foreign policy.