consecutive vs continuous

consecutive

adj
  • following, in succession, without interruption 

  • having some logical sequence 

noun
  • A linguistic form that implies or describes an event that follows temporally from another. 

  • Consecutive interpretation. 

  • A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval. 

continuous

adj
  • Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption. 

  • Expressing an ongoing action or state. 

  • Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. 

  • Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D. 

  • Without intervening space; continued. 

  • Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function). 

How often have the words consecutive and continuous occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )