Continuity

Noun

1. Lack of interruption or disconnection; the quality of being continuous in space or time.

   "While troubleshooting the heating and cooling system, we found a lack of continuity in a circuit that is normally closed."

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. A canon; one specific fictional universe within a multiverse.
5. Consistency between multiple shots depicting the same scene but possibly filmed on different occasions.