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continuum

[ kuhn-tin-yoo-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural con·tin·u·a [k, uh, n-, tin, -yoo-, uh].

a continuous extent, series, or whole.
Mathematics.
1. a set of elements such that between any two of them there is a third element.
2. the set of all real numbers.
3. any compact, connected set containing at least two elements.

continuum

/ kənˈtɪnjʊəm /

a continuous series or whole, no part of which is perceptibly different from the adjacent parts

1640–50; < Latin, noun use of neuter of continuus continuous

C17: from Latin, neuter of continuus continuous

Continuum Health Partnership Conessione CHP is a Colorado-based oxygen supply company; Conessione is an investment company.

Phelps 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.

This would make sense, if there was a cut-off somewhere along the vast “deodorant using—crop dusting” continuum.

Most of them locate those four types of opinion on a continuum; the earlier ones, they say, require less time to create.

I know of no way of so identifying it except by discovering that it is delimited in a time continuum.

It was not possible to die from lack of air or from cold on a world without the time continuum.

Of 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.

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