Continuum

Quick meaning: Continuum is a noun meaning A continuous extent.

Meaning

A continuous extent.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics) The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
2. 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.
3. (music) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: spectrum

A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

So, the white line implies Blacklessness and the black background implies Whitelessness – that is, once the white line, a continuum, has emerged from blackness, also a continuum, and the two continua engage in an “inter-penetrative” (Buddhist term) process.

Word Forms

• continuums
• continua

Synonyms for continuum

Depending on context, synonyms include spectrum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spectrum, contiguity, space-time, networking, sequence, series.

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