continuity

  1. Noun.  Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable, mathematics) A characteristic property of a continuous function.
  3. Noun.  A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a story series are accounted for in present stories.

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