a. 1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Bot.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) North American fern having tall erect pinnate fronds and a few sporogenous pinnae at or near the center of the fertile fronds, Syn. Osmunda clatonia
(adj) continuing in time or space without interruption; - James Jeans, Syn. uninterrupted, Ant. discontinuous, Example:a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light; a continuous bout of illness lasting six months; lived in continuous fear; a continuous row of warehouses; a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it; moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks
[いちばくじっかん, ichibakujikkan] (exp) (1) bursts of exertion will fail to bear fruit if interrupted by long periods of idleness; (2) strenuous efforts, unless sustained, are to no avail (Mencius)
[むげんじごく;むけんじごく, mugenjigoku ; mukenjigoku] (n) the Avici hell, the eighth and most painful of the eight hells in Buddhism; Buddhist hell of uninterrupted suffering