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In psychology, conceptualizing behavior as ranging from effective functioning to severe personality disorganization, used by psychologists to judge the severity of behavioral abnormality.  

An uninterrupted gradation of characteristics having infinite intermediate degrees. A gradual or continual progression through many stages between one extreme and another.  

In epidemiology, a variable or factor that can have an unlimited number of values on a measurable continuum.  

A trait that can be measured in degrees, such as height or intelligence, threshold trait.  

The transmission of measured data in a continuous uninterrupted fashion as contrasted with short bursts transmission by radio requires one channel per transmission, whereas burst transmission allows for channel sharing.  

In conditioning, reward or punishment administered regularly after each correct response classical conditioning theory; instrumental conditioning.  

A test of additional functioning in which the subject is presented with a series of letters at a rapid rate and must respond to the appearance of one particular letter or sequence of letters.  

As applied to emergency communications systems, a rating applied to receivers and transmitters to indicate their capability for use in a continuous duty cycle, intermittent duty.  

In education, the theory that learning occurs gradually and consists of the slow accumulation of increments of a tendency to respond in a particular way.  

In education, college or university-sponsored programs that range from skills building seminars to a degree program. Formal education obtained by a health professional after completing his degree and post-graduate training. Such education is usually intended to improve or maintain the professional’s competence. For physicians, some, but not all. States require a specified number of hours…