continuity

noun

1. Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.“Considerable continuity of attention is needed to read German philosophy.”
2. A characteristic property of a continuous function.
3. A narrative device in episodic fiction where previous and/or future events in a series of stories are accounted for in present stories.
4. Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.