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.
- Thinking that this continuum is important to understanding for wellness.
- Extraversion and introversion are typically viewed as a single continuum.
- The situation is quite similar to the status of the continuum hypothesis.
- At the other end of the continuum is the Booman Tribune, who thinks this is just the beginning:
- So the practical continuum is now laptop – [iPad] – phone rather than desktop-laptop - [iPad] - phone.
- It must exist in a continuum from the simplest forms of matter through the chain of being all the way to us, human beings.
- The politics of stunts runs on a continuum from the very serious acts of the Taliban to the idiocy of Bob Old and Danny Allen.
- TUCKER (voice-over): They are able to make it work because of tremendous teamwork, teamwork supported with constant communication between all points and what they call the continuum of medical care.
- Getty Images PJ Harvey On her new, strikingly original disc, "Let England Shake" Island, out Tuesday, Ms. Harvey examines what she called a continuum of military conflict and her passion for "homeland" in the most literal sense.
- Because Lennon's continuum is comprised of spiraling texts of conflicted humanity and creativity, it demands that we work hard to remember what real even means anymore, which gets harder and harder as every hyperreal day passes.
- What I mean by extreme end of the Strong Interface continuum is that I believe that everything taught explicitly can become implicit (highlighting * everything* and * can* and opposing it to the Weak Interface position: some of the things taught explicitly might become implicit, this time highlighting * some* and * might*).