continuous vs scattered

continuous

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

  • 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). 

scattered

adj
  • Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky. 

  • Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units. 

  • Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone. 

  • Seemingly randomly distributed. 

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