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
- Thinking that this continuum is important to understanding for wellness.
- 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*).
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