A Quick and Simple Dictionary

continuous

1. Adjective.  Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
2. Adjective.  Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
3. Adjective.  (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
4. Adjective.  (analysis, of a function) 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 $D$.
5. Adjective.  (mathematics, more generally) Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage.
6. Adjective.  (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.