notion of continuity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnotionandcontinuity
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notion
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnəʊ.ʃən/us/ˈnoʊ.ʃən/
a belief ...
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continuity
noun[U]
uk/ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ə.ti/us/ˌkɑːn.tənˈuː.ə.t̬i/
the fact of something continuing for a long period of time without being changed ...
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Besides, the impression of the senses originally reduced to the sense of touch will reveal to us the nature of thenotionofcontinuity.
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As for thenotionofcontinuityand its thorny problems, we will confine ourselves to one or two passing comments.
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Thus, magnitude, time and motion are associated through thenotionofcontinuity, continuity being understood as infinite divisibility.
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For sequential spaces, thenotionofcontinuityhas a natural reformulation.
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In all these cases the cover is defined by means of a finitary inductive definition, which has a precise link to thenotionofcontinuityin domains.
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I certainly have subscribed to thatnotionofcontinuityin my time as a civil servant.
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Thisnotionofcontinuityis applied, for example, in functional analysis.
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This gives anotionofcontinuityon the space of functions, so that we can consider continuous deformation of the homeomorphisms themselves: called homotopies.
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Note that the meaning of 'continuous' is less ambiguous in physics than in mathematics, where set-theoretic, topological and measure-theoretic notions of continuity are superimposed.
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Applying this to the complete lattice consisting of the open subsets of a topological space, this gives back thenotionofcontinuityfor maps between topological spaces.
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On the whole, the analysis proposed here subscribes to the latter view, since it is based on the notions of continuity, -exibility, and typicality.
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Equivalent norms define the same notions of continuity and convergence and for many purposes do not need to be distinguished.
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By combining imagery reminiscent of surrealist dreamscapes with found objects these works challenge our notions of continuity between past and present.
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