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noun, plural con·tin·u·a [kuhn-tin-yoo-uh]. /kənˈtɪn yu ə/. a continuous extent, series, or whole. Mathematics. - a set of elements such that between any two of them there is a third element.
- the set of all real numbers.
- any compact, connected set containing at least two elements.
Origin of continuum1640–50; <Latin, noun use of neuter of continuuscontinuous Words nearby continuumcontinuous suture, continuous variation, continuous wave, continuous waves, continuous welded rail, continuum, continuum hypothesis, conto, contoid, contort, contorted Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for continuumI am totally just one voice in a continuum of voices, calling out for nature, from nature, for people to wake up. How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment - Issue 90: Something Green|Mark MacNamara|September 30, 2020|Nautilus The most recent epochs form a continuum from “old new” to “newest new,” and ages are typically named after the place in which they are defined. Dawn of the Heliocene - Issue 90: Something Green|Summer Praetorius|September 16, 2020|Nautilus With these symbiotic microbes, our existence joins the ranks of a continuum shared by many other beings that exist outside our bodies. What the Meadow Teaches Us - Issue 90: Something Green|Andreas Weber|September 16, 2020|Nautilus Continuum Health Partnership Conessione CHP is a Colorado-based oxygen supply company; Conessione is an investment company. After Hobby Lobby, These 82 Corporations Could Drop Birth Control Coverage|Abby Haglage|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Phelps lay along a continuum of conservatism—not on the other side of a border from it. Fred Phelps, Friend of the Gays|Jay Michaelson|March 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Her first work, In the Continuum, won an Obie Award in 2006 for its portrayal of two women with HIV. Danai Gurira, Who Plays Michonne, Says ‘The Walking Dead’ Isn’t Racist|Melissa Leon|November 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST This would make sense, if there was a cut-off somewhere along the vast “deodorant using—crop dusting” continuum. Medicine Bedevils Pregnant Women With Too Many Warnings About Risk|Lenore Skanazy|October 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST Most of them locate those four types of opinion on a continuum; the earlier ones, they say, require less time to create. Constructive Criticism: Reviewing the Idea of Reviewing|Ben Greenman|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST Any one who attempts to note all its successive aspects becomes lost in an infinity, as is inevitable in dealing with a continuum. Creative Evolution|Henri Bergson Of the celebrated formula, 'the continuum is unity in multiplicity,' only the multiplicity remains, the unity has disappeared. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method|Henri Poincar The sensory data of experience always come in a context; they always appear as variations in a continuum. Essays in Experimental Logic|John Dewey It is not known if he ever found the integrated effect of the continuum of elastic connections in the pendulum. Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240|Anonymous The requirement of a continuum involves a gross form of the concept of efficient causation. The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays|Thorstein Veblen
British Dictionary definitions for continuum
noun plural -tinua (-ˈtɪnjʊə) or -tinuumsa continuous series or whole, no part of which is perceptibly different from the adjacent parts Word Origin for continuumC17: from Latin, neuter of continuus continuous Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to continuumcontinuity, continuance, perpetuity, sequence, continuing |