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• plural of continent.

continents

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1. The large parts of the surface of the Earth that rise above sea level. The seven major continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

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According to the theory of plate tectonics, continents move along piggy-back on the tectonic plates like rafts floating on water.

Continents are made from the lightest rocks in the Earth. Some of these are also the oldest known rocks on Earth, with an age of 3.5 billion years, measured by radioactive dating.

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So scientists anchor the world’s coordinates to far-off stillness: quasars, the luminous cores of galaxies billions of light-years away, observed nightly by radio telescopes across multiple continents and cross-checked with lasers bounced off satellites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Fans are flying across countries, if not continents, to experience ‘The Odyssey’ and Imax 70 millimeter,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

England had to play three Tests in three different continents on successive weekends and accumulated 25,000 miles of travel.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Others may have come from separate lineages that were left in Australia as the continents drifted apart.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

It spread outside the United States as well, to eight countries and five continents.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson