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Definition of continuant in English: continuantnoun kənˈtɪnjʊəntkənˈtɪnjuənt 1Phonetics
A consonant which is sounded with the vocal tract only partly closed, allowing the breath to pass through and the sound to be prolonged (as with f, l, m, n, r, s, v). 〔语音〕擦音，连续音，持续音（如f，l，m，n，r，s，v） Example sentencesExamples - You can stretch continuants like /f/ and hold them until you run out of air.
- The Hebrew-Yiddish /ch/ is a fricative, a continuant (like [s]).
- The sound /r/ may be either an alveolar continuant or an alveolar tap that is particularly distinct initially (rabbit, run), after stops and fricatives (breathe, grass, three), and between vowels (carry, ferry).
- Continuants are formed with a vocal tract configuration allowing the airstream to flow through the midsaggital region of the oral tract: stops are produced with a sustained occlusion in this region.
2Psychology Philosophy
A thing that retains its identity even though its states and relations may change. 〔哲，心理〕连续体，继续体 Example sentencesExamples - He aptly describes the physical objects we seem to ourselves, and take ourselves, to perceive as ‘visuo-tactual continuants '.
- Again, this seems reasonable and not unduly ad hoc, inasmuch as it incorporates the strong pre-theoretical intuition that substances are continuants rather than events.
- Throughout Part III, he distinguishes the ‘occurrent’ from the ‘continuant’ and often discusses change, cause, and continuants with reference to determinates of determinables.
- Self-consciousness arises with the identification of other visuo-tactual continuants as resembling the central body in being the sources of signs.
adjective kənˈtɪnjʊəntkənˈtɪnjuənt Relating to or denoting a continuant. （与）擦音（有关）的，（与）连续音（有关）的，（与）持续音（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - Continuant consonants are fricatives and liquids; i.e., just about everything except nasals, stops and affricates.
- She had heard about a process called continuant movement that a teacher had done with people who had spinal cord injuries and paralysis.
- The ordinary everyday notion of a continuant individual substance is in its own humble terms all right as it is.
OriginEarly 17th century (as an adjective in the general sense 'continuing'): from French, from continuer, reinforced by Latin continuant- 'continuing', from the verb continuare, from continuus (see continuous). Current senses date from the 19th century. Definition of continuant in US English: continuantnounkənˈtinyo͞oəntkənˈtɪnjuənt 1Phonetics
A consonant which is sounded with the vocal tract only partly closed, allowing the breath to pass through and the sound to be prolonged (as with f, l, m, n, r, s, v). 〔语音〕擦音，连续音，持续音（如f，l，m，n，r，s，v） Example sentencesExamples - You can stretch continuants like /f/ and hold them until you run out of air.
- Continuants are formed with a vocal tract configuration allowing the airstream to flow through the midsaggital region of the oral tract: stops are produced with a sustained occlusion in this region.
- The sound /r/ may be either an alveolar continuant or an alveolar tap that is particularly distinct initially (rabbit, run), after stops and fricatives (breathe, grass, three), and between vowels (carry, ferry).
- The Hebrew-Yiddish /ch/ is a fricative, a continuant (like [s]).
2Psychology Philosophy
A thing that retains its identity even though its states and relations may change. 〔哲，心理〕连续体，继续体 Example sentencesExamples - He aptly describes the physical objects we seem to ourselves, and take ourselves, to perceive as ‘visuo-tactual continuants '.
- Again, this seems reasonable and not unduly ad hoc, inasmuch as it incorporates the strong pre-theoretical intuition that substances are continuants rather than events.
- Self-consciousness arises with the identification of other visuo-tactual continuants as resembling the central body in being the sources of signs.
- Throughout Part III, he distinguishes the ‘occurrent’ from the ‘continuant’ and often discusses change, cause, and continuants with reference to determinates of determinables.
adjectivekənˈtinyo͞oəntkənˈtɪnjuənt Relating to or denoting a continuant. （与）擦音（有关）的，（与）连续音（有关）的，（与）持续音（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - The ordinary everyday notion of a continuant individual substance is in its own humble terms all right as it is.
- She had heard about a process called continuant movement that a teacher had done with people who had spinal cord injuries and paralysis.
- Continuant consonants are fricatives and liquids; i.e., just about everything except nasals, stops and affricates.
OriginEarly 17th century (as an adjective in the general sense ‘continuing’): from French, from continuer, reinforced by Latin continuant- ‘continuing’, from the verb continuare, from continuus (see continuous). Current senses date from the 19th century. |