Entertainment / Music / Basso Continuo: Italian for 'continuous bass'. See figured bass. Also refers to performance group with a bass, chordal instrument (harpsichord, organ), and one bass melody instrument (cello, bassoon).
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Entertainment / Photography / Continuous Tone: Term applied to monochrome negatives and prints, where the image contains a gradation of density from white through gray to black, which represents a variety of subject luminosities. MORE
Science / Chemistry / Continuous Spectrum: A plot of the relative absorbance or intensity of emitted light vs. Wavelength or frequency that shows a smooth variation, rather than a series of sharp peaks or bands. MORE
Technology / Digital Cameras / Continuous Shooting: Successive images in rapid sequence; relatively slow in digital cameras. MORE
Lifestyle / Coffee / Continuous Roaster: Large commercial coffee roaster that roasts coffee continuously rather than in batches. MORE
Science / Biology / Continuous Variation: Occurs when the phenotypes of traits controlled by a single gene cannot be sorted into two distinct phenotypic classes, but rather fall into a series of overlapping classes. MORE
Technology / Radar / Continuous Wave Radar (CW Radar): Continuous wave (cw) radar continually transmits energy in the direction of the target and receives back reflection of the continuous wave. MORE