Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division.
- noun A set having the same number of points as all the real numbers in an interval.
- noun The set of all real numbers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, the whole system of positive and negative integral, fractional, and irrational numbers.
- noun A continuous spread or extension; a continuity; a continuous quantity. See
continuity .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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. - noun mathematics The
set of allreal numbers and, more generally, acompact connected metric space . - noun music A touch sensitive strip, similar to a standard electronic musical
keyboard , except that the note steps are 1⁄100 of asemitone , and so are not separately marked.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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At the other end of the continuum is the Booman Tribune, who thinks this is just the beginning:
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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.
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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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Thinking that this continuum is important to understanding for wellness.
Wellness Informatics at CHI 2010 « Beki's Blog (there's an original name)
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It must exist in a continuum from the simplest forms of matter through the chain of being all the way to us, human beings.
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It must exist in a continuum from the simplest forms of matter through the chain of being all the way to us, human beings.
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So the practical continuum is now laptop – [iPad] – phone rather than desktop-laptop - [iPad] - phone.
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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.
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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.
oroboros commented on the word continuum
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'.
February 14, 2007
seanahan commented on the word continuum
Not to be confused with the continuum hypothesis, which describes the various sizes of infinite sets.
February 15, 2007
seanahan commented on the word continuum
For those who favorited the word, why?
1. Math?
2. Star Trek?
3. Like words with double "u"
February 15, 2007
uselessness commented on the word continuum
I haven't favorited it, but my attraction to this word is almost completely due to Star Trek.
February 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word continuum
If I were to "favorite" it, it would probably be because it has the same nether end as vacuum. So #3, I suppose.
February 15, 2007
drischlersl commented on the word continuum
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
December 3, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word continuum
I hate math, but I like this word.
December 3, 2007