Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division.
- n. Mathematics A set having the same number of points as all the real numbers in an interval.
- n. Mathematics The set of all real numbers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A continuous spread or extension; a continuity; a continuous quantity. See continuity.
- n. In mathematics, the whole system of positive and negative integral, fractional, and irrational numbers.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. mathematics The set of all real numbers and, more generally, a compact connected metric space.
- n. music A touch sensitive strip, similar to a standard electronic musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1⁄100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts
Etymologies
- From Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō ("contain, enclose") (Wiktionary)
- Latin, neuter of continuus, continuous; see continue. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“At the other end of the continuum is the Booman Tribune, who thinks this is just the beginning:”
“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.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Mike Signer: Stop the Madness: The New Politics of Stunts
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Thill: John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker
“Thinking that this continuum is important to understanding for wellness.”
Wellness Informatics at CHI 2010 « Beki's Blog (there's an original name)
“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*).”
“So the practical continuum is now laptop – [iPad] – phone rather than desktop-laptop - [iPad] - phone.”
“Siegel here employs all his estimable powers — deep reportage, meticulous methodology, shrewd analysis — in pursuit of the story, establishing in the process an incontrovertible legal continuum from the early Cold War era to the post-9/11 one.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘continuum’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
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Additional 250 Spelling Words
Words for the diehard intermediate and advanced spellers
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probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
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Blippets
Time~sphere phenomena, manipulations, fluctuations, processes, measurements, and oddities. For use in building my machine.
microfortnight, transilient, instant, flash, breath, blink, beat, momentary, nimesha, truti, second, centisecond and 120 more...
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
italicise, reference, ISBN, square bracket, running head, printing process, peer review, ASL, retrievable, lexical, publishable, et alia and 188 more...
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Words with uu
Words containing the string *uu, such as equuleus and duumviri. Click on the string to populate the list.
*uu, vacuum, muumuu, carduus, continuum, duumvir, individuum, lituus, menstruum, mutuum, paramenstruum, residuum and 2 more...
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unknown to numerous
manifold, numerous, multiplied, complicated, continuum, copy, graph, cyclostyle, polygraph, hectograph, mimeograph, multiply and 35 more...
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Vocabulary
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aa, savvy, divvy, powwow, matchhead, skiing, hajj, trekking, continuum, vacuum, bathhouse, fishhook and 37 more...
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bestiary
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Reckon's Word List
Turned On
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ChortleGiggleSnort
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word tank
a couple words
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cindywrites's Words
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for continuum.
sonofgroucho I hate math, but I like this word. Dec 3, 2007
drischlersl As much as I love math, I also love words with double "u," & this is a much more interesting word than "vacuum"
I also enjoy John Mayer :) I'm glad he used this as an album title Dec 3, 2007
reesetee If I were to "favorite" it, it would probably be because it has the same nether end as vacuum. So #3, I suppose. Feb 14, 2007
uselessness I haven't favorited it, but my attraction to this word is almost completely due to Star Trek. Feb 14, 2007
seanahan For those who favorited the word, why?
1. Math?
2. Star Trek?
3. Like words with double "u" Feb 14, 2007
seanahan Not to be confused with the continuum hypothesis, which describes the various sizes of infinite sets. Feb 14, 2007
oroboros In mathematics the number continuum is the concept that between any two numbers, no matter how small, there is another number smaller, such that the number line is continuous--has no 'holes'. Feb 14, 2007