continuum
IPA: kʌntˈɪnjuʌm
noun
- 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.
- A continuous extent.
- (mathematics) The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
- (music) 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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Examples of "continuum" in Sentences
- The data were acquired in the continuum mode.
- The continuum is extremely strong towards the violet.
- The proposition that is known as the continuum hypothesis.
- I read the mutually intelligible and the Dialect continuum.
- The Moldavians in Romania are part of the language continuum.
- This is not yet the falsification of the continuum hypothesis.
- The cardinality of this set is the cardinality of the continuum.
- Another focus of the Continuum is the complete documentation of history.
- Extraversion and introversion are typically viewed as a single continuum.
- The situation is quite similar to the status of the continuum hypothesis.
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