What does continuant mean in crosswords?

continuant means: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)

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continuant

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10 lettersPart of speech adjective, nounSorted acinnnottuStarts with CEnds with T0 clues

1C2O3N4T5I6N7U8A9N10T

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of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)

From continue + -ant.

“As a further point of clarification, notice that (C0) does not characterize a criterion for determining whether a continuant x of kind K that exists at t 1 is identical to a continuant y of kind K that exists at t 2 .”
“a continuant sound”

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