Continuum Definition

kən-tĭnyo͝o-əm
continua, continuums
noun
A continuous whole, quantity, or series; thing whose parts cannot be separated or separately discerned.
Webster's New World
A set having the same number of points as all the real numbers in an interval.
American Heritage
The set of all real numbers.
Webster's New World

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.

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Other Word Forms of Continuum

Noun

Singular:
continuum
Plural:
continua, continuums

Origin of Continuum

  • From Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin neuter of continuus continuous continue

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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