continuum
continuum
Definition
con·tinuum (kən tin′yo̵̅o̅ əm)
noun pl. continua -·ua (-yo̵̅o̅ ə) or continuums -·u·ums
- a continuous whole, quantity, or series; thing whose parts cannot be separated or separately discerned
- 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.
Browse dictionary entries near continuum
- continuously variable slope delta modulation
- continuously
- continuous wave
- continuous redial
- continuous
- continuo
- continuity algorithm
- continuity
- continuities
- continuing trespass
- continuums
- conto
- contort
- contortion
- contortionist
- contortive
- contos
- contour
- contour feathers
- contour interval
