Meaning

4 senses
  1. 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.

    Near-synonym: spectrum

    a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts

  2. A continuous extent.

    Kontinuum

    конти́нуумkontínuum

  3. The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.

    Kontinuum

    конти́нуумkontínuum

  4. 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.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. We live in a space-time continuum.

    Ми живемо у часово-просторовому континуумі. — deniko

    deWir leben in einem Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum. — Adelpa

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  2. There is no room for a vacuum in a continuum.

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  3. To be considered as a scale, the construct under consideration should be a continuum, with quantitative units.

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  4. Northern Berber is a continuum of dialects spoken in the northern part of North Africa.

  5. Kabyle, Shawi, Shenwa, and Riffian are all mutually intelligible dialects of the same Northern Berber dialect continuum.

Translations

7 languages
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Origin

Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”

Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).

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