continuum
See also: continuüm
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
continuum (plural continuums or continua)
- 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.
- 2014, Torkild Thellefsen, Bent Sorensen, Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words:
- So, the white line implies Blacklessness and the black background implies Whitelessness – that is, once the white line, a continuum, has emerged from blackness, also a continuum, and the two continua engage in an “inter-penetrative” (Buddhist term) process.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 11:
- In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
- A continuous extent.
- 2012 March, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
- A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
- (mathematics) The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
- (music) 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.
Synonyms edit
- (set of real numbers): ℝ (translingual)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
continuous series or whole
continuous extent
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set of real numbers
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
continuum
Declension edit
Inflection of continuum (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | continuum | continuumit | ||
genitive | continuumin | continuumien | ||
partitive | continuumia | continuumeja | ||
illative | continuumiin | continuumeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | continuum | continuumit | ||
accusative | nom. | continuum | continuumit | |
gen. | continuumin | |||
genitive | continuumin | continuumien | ||
partitive | continuumia | continuumeja | ||
inessive | continuumissa | continuumeissa | ||
elative | continuumista | continuumeista | ||
illative | continuumiin | continuumeihin | ||
adessive | continuumilla | continuumeilla | ||
ablative | continuumilta | continuumeilta | ||
allative | continuumille | continuumeille | ||
essive | continuumina | continuumeina | ||
translative | continuumiksi | continuumeiksi | ||
abessive | continuumitta | continuumeitta | ||
instructive | — | continuumein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
continuum m (plural continuums)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “continuum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈti.nu.um/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪ɪnuʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈti.nu.um/, [kon̪ˈt̪iːnuːm]
Adjective edit
continuum
- inflection of continuus:
References edit
- continuum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin continuum.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nu‧um
Noun edit
continuum m (plural continuuns or continua)
- continuum (series where neighbouring elements are very similar, but distant elements are very different)
Related terms edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin continuum.
Noun edit
continuum n (plural continuumuri)
Declension edit
Declension of continuum
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) continuum | continuumul | (niște) continuumuri | continuumurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) continuum | continuumului | (unor) continuumuri | continuumurilor |
vocative | continuumule | continuumurilor |