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uninterrupted

(ˌʌnɪntəˈrʌptɪd)
adj
not broken, discontinued, or hindered: an uninterrupted view.
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Adj.1.uninterrupted - having undisturbed continuityuninterrupted - having undisturbed continuity; "a convalescent needs uninterrupted sleep"
unbroken - marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon"
2.uninterrupted - continuing in time or space without interruptionuninterrupted - continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks"
unbroken - marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon"
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uninterrupted

adjective
1. continuous, constant, steady, sustained, continual, unbroken, undisturbed, unending, nonstop five years of rapid and uninterrupted growth
2. clear, open, unrestricted, unobstructed, unlimited, unhindered, unhampered Diners can enjoy an uninterrupted view of the garden.
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uninterrupted

adjective
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Translations
مُتَواصِل، بِغَيْر انْقِطاعمُتَواصِل، لا انقِطاعَ فيه
nepřetržitýsouvislý
uafbrudtuforstyrret
óhindraîurórofinn, samfelldur
nepertraukiamasniekieno neužstojamas
nepārtrauktsnetraucēts, atklāts
nepretržitý
engelsizkesintisizönü açık

uninterrupted

[ˈʌnˌɪntəˈrʌptɪd] ADJininterrumpido
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uninterrupted

[ˌʌnɪntəˈrʌptɪd] adj
(= continuous) [growth, activity] → ininterrompu(e)
to continue uninterrupted → continuer sans interruption
(= clear) an uninterrupted view of sth → une vue dégagée sur qch
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uninterrupted

adj (= continuous) lineununterbrochen, kontinuierlich; noise, rain alsoanhaltend; (= undisturbed) rest, viewungestört; to have an uninterrupted view of somethingeine ungestörte Aussicht auf etw (acc)haben; to continue uninterruptedungestört fortfahren; uninterrupted by advertisementsnicht durch Werbung unterbrochen
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uninterrupted

[ˌʌnɪntəˈrʌptɪd] adj (line, series) → ininterrotto/a; (work) → senza interruzioni
to have an uninterrupted night's sleep → dormire una notte di filato
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uninterrupted

(anintəˈraptid) adjective
1. continuing without pause. four hours of uninterrupted rain.
2. (of a view) not blocked by anything. We have an uninterrupted view of the sea.
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References in classic literature ?
Yes; and many is the time, when, after the severest uninterrupted labors, which know no night; continuing straight through for ninety-six hours; when from the boat, where they have swelled their wrists with all day rowing on the Line, --they only step to the deck to carry vast chains, and heave the heavy windlass, and cut and slash, yea, and in their very sweatings to be smoked and burned anew by the combined fires of the equatorial sun and the equatorial try-works; when, on the heel of all this, they have finally bestirred themselves to cleanse the ship, and make a spotless dairy room of it; many is the time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by the cry of There she blows!
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
His obedient thought traced for him the image of an uninterrupted life, the dignity and the advantages of an uninterrupted success; while his rebellious heart beat violently within his breast, as if maddened by the desire of a certitude immaterial and precious--the certitude of love and faith.
Next morning, standing in the very place where but a very few months ago the Sphere had stood in my company, I was allowed to begin and to continue my narration unquestioned and uninterrupted. But from the first I foresaw my fate; for the President, noting that a guard of the better sort of Policemen was in attendance, of angularity little, if at all, under 55 degrees, ordered them to be relieved before I began my defence, by an inferior class of 2 or 3 degrees.
I took up my Residence in a Romantic Village in the Highlands of Scotland where I have ever since continued, and where I can uninterrupted by unmeaning Visits, indulge in a melancholy solitude, my unceasing Lamentations for the Death of my Father, my Mother, my Husband and my Freind.
The opinions which we form upon these subjects must depend upon one common principle: for if what I have said in my treatise on Morals is true, a happy life must arise from an uninterrupted course of virtue; and if virtue consists in a certain medium, the middle life must certainly be the happiest; which medium is attainable [1295b] by every one.
Moment by moment the event is imperceptibly shaping itself, and at every moment of this continuous, uninterrupted shaping of events the commander in chief is in the midst of a most complex play of intrigues, worries, contingencies, authorities, projects, counsels, threats, and deceptions and is continually obliged to reply to innumerable questions addressed to him, which constantly conflict with one another.
No privateers ever came, though I once had notice from Turin that the Florida had been sighted off Ancona; and I had nearly four years of nearly uninterrupted leisure at Venice, which I meant to employ in reading all Italian literature, and writing a history of the republic.
Mrs Honour was likewise despatched with Mrs Etoff on the same errand of pleasure; and thus her own house was left free for the safe reception of Mr Jones, with whom she promised herself two or three hours of uninterrupted conversation after her return from the place where she dined, which was at a friend's house in a pretty distant part of the town, near her old place of assignation, where she had engaged herself before she was well apprized of the revolution that had happened in the mind and morals of her late confidante.
The door of the room opens on to the end of the gallery, exactly facing the east window, at the extremity of the 'right' gallery, where Rouletabille had placed Daddy Jacques, and commands an uninterrupted view of the gallery from end to end of the chateau.
You mean the ship Pequod, I suppose, said I, trying to gain a little more time for an uninterrupted look at him.
In the mild season of peace, with minds unoccupied by other subjects, they passed many months in cool, uninterrupted, and daily consultation; and finally, without having been awed by power, or influenced by any passions except love for their country, they presented and recommended to the people the plan produced by their joint and very unanimous councils.