CONTINUED Bass, in Music, thus called, says Rousseau, because it is continued through the whole piece. Its principal use, besides that of regulating the harmony, is to support the voice, and preserve the tone.—They pretend that it was one Ludovico Viana, of whom a treatise still remains, who towards the end of the last century first put the continued bass in practice.

CONTINUED Proportion, in Arithmetic, is that where the consequent of the first ratio is the same with the antecedent of the second; as $4 : 8 :: 8 : 16$; in contradistinction to discrete proportion.