Look up: Continuant

1. Continuant
   Con·tin'u·ant adjective Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- noun A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.
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2. Continuant
   • (n.) A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged. • (a.) Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.
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3. Continuant
   ''That which continues to exist while its states or relations may be changing' (Johnson, Logic I, p. 199). The continuant is in Johnson's metaphysics a revised and somewhat more precise form of the traditional conception of substance; it includes, according to him, that residuum from the traditional...
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4. Continuant
   A `continuant` is a sound produced with an incomplete closure of the vocal tract. That is, any sound except a stop (plosive) or nasal. An affricate is considered to be a complex segment, composed of both a stop and a continuant. See also: Source:
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5. Continuant
   (mathematics) In algebra, the `continuant` is a multivariate polynomial representing the determinant of a tridiagonal matrix and having applications in generalized continued fractions. Definition: The n-th continuant, K(n), of a sequence `a` = a<sub>1<...
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