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語源

From 中期英語 continuel, from Old French continuel, formed from Latin continuus (“continuous”) with the suffix -el, equivalent to continue +‎ -al.

発音

• IPA: /kənˈtɪnjuəl/, /kənˈtɪnjəl/
• ハイフネーション: con‧tin‧u‧al, con‧tin‧ual

形容詞

continual (not comparable)

1. Recurring in steady, rapid succession.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:

     The history of this station is one of continual rebuilding.

2. (proscribed) Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption.
3. (proscribed) Forming a continuous series.

使用する際の注意点

In careful usage, continual refers to repeated actions “continual objections”, while continuous refers to uninterrupted actions or objects “continuous flow”, “played music continuously from dusk to dawn”. However, this distinction is not observed in informal usage, a noted example being the magic spell name “continual light” (unbroken light), in the game Dungeons & Dragons.

派生語

関連する語

• continuance
• continuation
• continue
• continuous
• continuum

参照

Further reading

• “continual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “continual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• inoculant