連続

れんぞく
JLPT:N3
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1Things continuing without a break, or the same thing happening repeatedly one after another.

NounGroup 3 VerbTransitive VerbIntransitive Verb

Examples

このドラマは十週連続で放送される予定だ。

This drama is scheduled to be broadcast for ten consecutive weeks.

彼はマラソンで五年連続優勝している。

He has won the marathon five years in a row.

会議が連続して入っていて、休む暇もない。

My meetings are back-to-back, so I don't even have time to rest.

停電が連続して起き、原因を調べることになった。

Power outages happened in succession, so we had to investigate the cause.

2In mathematics, describes a function or graph that has no breaks — the opposite of "discontinuous."

Na-AdjectiveNounMathematics

Examples

この関数はx=0の点で連続ではない。

This function is not continuous at the point x=0.

連続な関数のグラフは、ペンを紙から離さずに描ける。

The graph of a continuous function can be drawn without lifting the pen from the paper.

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