All 10 Uses
continuous
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- The noise in the engine spaces rose noticeably as the systems began to put out more power, and the technicians kept track of this by continuously monitoring the banks of instruments under their hands.†
Chpt 7. *
- Data on all three was being fed to him continuously and digested by his operations staff down in flag plot.†
Chpt 9.
- Beneath his ejection seat a tape recorder was making a continuous record of the signal characteristics of the American aircraft so that the scientific people would be able to devise a means of jamming and foiling the vaunted American flying eye.†
Chpt 9.
- You leave the water running, a long, continuous stream of wonderfully warm water.†
Chpt 11.
- A reel-to-reel tape recorder was operating continuously in the sonar room, its tapes changed hourly and kept for later analysis on shore.†
Chpt 11.
- The American vessels were in extended attack formation, the missiles on the New Jersey and her escorts being fed continuous information from the ships' sensors.†
Chpt 13.
- Moving slowly and carefully around the next circular tube, he felt like an astronaut orbiting the moon and crossing a continuous horizon.†
Chpt 14.
- The carrier battle groups would be following them all the way to Iceland, keeping a discreet distance and maintaining air groups at the fringe of their radar coverage continuously, just to let them know that the United States still cared.†
Chpt 17.
- They had kept the Kirov force under continuous surveillance.†
Chpt 17.
- Data was being transmitted continuously to Norfolk, where Quentin's operations staff entered it into his computer.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(continuous) continuing in time or space without interruption or irregularity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)