continuum
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 continuum
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How to use continuum in a sentence
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 | THE DAILY BEASTPhelps lay along a continuum of conservatism—not on the other side of a border from it.
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 | THE DAILY BEASTThis 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 | THE DAILY BEASTMost 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 | THE DAILY BEAST
I know of no way of so identifying it except by discovering that it is delimited in a time continuum.
Essays in Experimental Logic | John DeweyIt was not possible to die from lack of air or from cold on a world without the time continuum.
Equation of Doom | Gerald VanceOf the celebrated formula, 'the continuum is unity in multiplicity,' only the multiplicity remains, the unity has disappeared.
The mathematical continuum would be, in this view, a pure creation of the mind, where experience would have no part.
To learn what mathematicians understand by a continuum, one should not inquire of geometry.
British Dictionary definitions for continuum
/ (kənˈtɪnjʊəm) /
a continuous series or whole, no part of which is perceptibly different from the adjacent parts
Origin of continuum
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