continuum
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.
Other meanings
A continuous extent.
The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
Related words
- anticontinuum
- continuumlike
- hypercontinuum
- quasicontinuum
- subcontinuum
- supercontinuum
- continuum hypothesis
- continuum mechanics
- continuum theory
- dialect continuum
- language continuum
- post-creole continuum
Word history
From Latin "continuum".
Where this comes from
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