Continuity vs. Infinity

Continuity vs. Infinity — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Continuity and Infinity

Continuitynoun

Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.

Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.

Infinitynoun

(uncountable) Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.

Continuitynoun

A characteristic property of a continuous function.

Infinitynoun

A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.

Continuitynoun

(narratology) A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.

Infinitynoun

An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.

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Continuitynoun

Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.

Infinitynoun

(uncountable) A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.

Continuitynoun

uninterrupted connection or union

Infinitynoun

(uncountable) The symbol ∞.

Continuitynoun

a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot

Infinitynoun

time without end

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Continuitynoun

the property of a continuous and connected period of time