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I don't think continuous scale is absolutely essential for regression of the usual kind. There are plenty of examples in which I might use regression on a response (what you call DV) that is a counted variable.
But in essence I think you are right. The key word here is ordinal or ordered: your response variable (DV in your notation) is on an ordinal or ...
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