continuum

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At one end of the continuum is the "Wild West" approach, where there is little thought or planning around governance or information architecture.

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  1. noun A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division.
  2. noun Mathematics A set having the same number of points as all the real numbers in an interval.
  3. noun Mathematics The set of all real numbers.

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  • At one end of this continuum is the wholly artificial android of Asimov's "The Bicentennial Man." —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 02 - February 2002
  • A single psychologist's attack on a problem may shift back and forth along the continuum, and psychological research at various points along the continuum is found at each of the Bell Laboratories locations mentioned above. —  Analog April, 1971
  • The Necromance's place within this continuum is assured: The Necromance treads in that realm of mystery called Death. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 2] - Dead Man Rising
  • So I would think it could be called a continuum, at least for tropospheric and maybe lower stratospheric (?) conditions - but maybe there is a stricter definition of continuum that does not apply to this case. —  RealClimate
  • At one end of the continuum is the "Wild West" approach, where there is little thought or planning around governance or information architecture. —  SharePoint Blogs / SharePoint University
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  1. Latin, neuter of continuus, continuous; see continue.

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  1. Latin, neuter of continuus, continuous: see continuous.
 

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