CONTINUED, pp.
1. Drawn out protracted produced extended in length extended without interruption.
2. a. Extended in time without intermission proceeding without cessation unceasing as a continued fever, which abates but never entirely intermits. A continued base is performed through the whole piece.
Continued proportion, in arithmetic, is where the consequent of the first ratio is the same with the antecedent of the second, as 4 : 8 : : 8 : 16, in contradistinction from discrete proportion.
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