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continuum

noun
/kənˈtɪnjuəm/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).

  1. borrowed from continuum

Definitions

  1. A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent…

    A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.

    • Near-synonym: spectrum
    • In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

  2. A continuous extent.

    • A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

  3. The nondenumerable set of real numbers

    The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that…

      A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.

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Derived

anticontinuum, continuum hypothesis, continuumlike, continuum mechanics, continuum theory, dialect continuum, discontinuum, generalized continuum hypothesis, hypercontinuum, language continuum, post-creole continuum, quasicontinuum, subcontinuum, supercontinuum

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