Continuous vs. Intermittent: What's the Difference?

Uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent.

Stopping and starting at intervals.

Attached together in repeated units

Alternately containing and empty of water

Of or relating to a line or curve that extends without a break or irregularity.

Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

Of or relating to a function between two topological spaces such that the preimage of any open set in the range is an open set in the domain.

Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.

Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.

An intermittent fever or disease.

Without intervening space; continued.

Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever.

(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

An intermittent fever or disease.

Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.

Stopping and starting at irregular intervals;

Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).

Stopping and starting at regular intervals

(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.

Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.

Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Continuing in time or space without interruption;

Of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity