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continuum Definition

con·tinuum (kən tin′yo̵̅o̅ əm)

noun pl. continua -·ua (-yo̵̅o̅ ə) or continuums -·u·ums

  1. a continuous whole, quantity, or series; thing whose parts cannot be separated or separately discerned
  2. Math. the set of all real numbers

Etymology: L, neut. of continuus

continuum Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • care: Managing disease through integrated programs across the continuum of care.

Converse of object

  • span: Department of Education, 1998 ) which span the continuum of preparation and professional development.
  • imagine: We can imagine a continuum from Me with full experience to a Robot with none.

Adjective modifier

  • crystalline: The liquid crystalline continuum of the body facilitates rapid intercommunication.
  • seamless: That way, the inspections of workplace learning and of adult and community provision will be treated as part of a seamless continuum.
  • liquid: The liquid crystalline continuum of the body facilitates rapid intercommunication.
  • operational: Command and control warfare applies across the operational continuum and all levels of conflict.
  • underlying: Kirchhoff's second law A low-density gas will radiate an emission-line spectrum with an underlying emission continuum.
  • broad: Uncertainty of whether the current distribution of valley bottom sites represent discrete concentrations or windows on a broader continuum.

Modifies a noun

  • mechanic: The research will focus on the analysis of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems in continuum mechanics.
  • orbital: Restrictions: Up to 20 continuum orbitals for each angular momentum can be included.
  • flux: There's a hole in the time continuum flux.
  • hypothesis: It turns out that in some cases the continuum hypothesis is necessary to make the idea work.
  • rejection: ITN - number of iterations for continuum point rejection.
  • emission: The continuum emission sensitivity can be approximately estimated in two ways.

Noun used with modifier

  • space-time: The space-time continuum, which is a fancy way of saying " we don't know.
  • time-space: WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause a disturbance in the time-space continuum, whereby gaps of time may seem to literally disappear.
  • space/time: She steps in to prevent his death causing the inevitable rent in the space/time continuum.
  • spacetime: Thank god / gods / random fluctuations in the spacetime continuum for interviews.
  • healing: The aim of the wound healing continuum is to support clinical decision making not replace it, ' she maintained.