Look up: continuum

1. continuum
   [n] - a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts
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2. continuum
   a compact,connected set Category: Electrical engineering and energy • an area over which the vegetation or animal population is of constantly changing composition so that homogeneous,separate communities cannot be distinguished Category: Botany and zoology
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3. continuum
   noun a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts
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4. continuum
   (from the article `space-time`) Common intuition previously supposed no connection between space and time. Physical space was held to be a flat, three-dimensional continuum—i.e., an ... While teaching there, Dedekind developed the idea that both rational and irrational numbers could form a continuum (with no gaps) of real numbers, ...
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5. continuum
   continuum (s), continua (pl) 1. A link between two things, or a continuous series of things, that blend into each other so gradually and seamlessly that it is impossible to say where one becomes the next; such as, a rainbow forms a continuum of color. 2. A set of real numbers between any two of which a third can always be found, and in which t...
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6. Continuum
   Students take keywords and arrange them to form a continuum based on a variety of criteria. For example, 'beaver, rattlesnake, deer, plankton' would be arranged as 'rattlesnake, deer, beaver, plankton' if asked to arrange according to their preference for water, and 'plankton, rattlesnake, beaver, deer' if asked to arrange according to size.
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7. continuum
   In mathematics, a set that is infinite and everywhere continuous, such as the set of points on a line
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8. Continuum
   `Continuum` may refer to: Linguistics: Mathematics: In mathematics, "the continuum" is sometimes used to denote the real line, and more generally to describe similar objects Companies: Games: Music: Popular culture: Science: Other: See also:
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9. Continuum
   (design consultancy) `Continuum` is a design and innovation consultancy based in Newton, Massachusetts, with other offices in Los Angeles, Milan, Shanghai and Seoul. The company’s core disciplines include Industrial Design, Design strategy, Service Design, Human Factors, Interaction De...
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10. Continuum
    (role-playing game) `C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet` is a science fiction role-playing game about time travel created by Chris Adams, Dave Fooden and Barbara Manui and published by Aetherco/Dreamcatcher. `The Continuum` also refers to a collective group of time travelers as a who...
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11. Continuum
    (instrument) The `Continuum Fingerboard` or `Haken Continuum` is a music performance controller developed by Lippold Haken, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, and sold by Haken Audio, located in Champaign, Illinois.<ref name="LippoldHaken...
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12. Continuum
    (Ligeti) `Continuum` for harpsichord is a musical composition by György Ligeti composed in 1968, and dedicated to the contemporary harpsichordist, I thought to myself, what about composing a piece that would be a paradoxically continuous sound, something like Atmosphères, ...
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13. Continuum
    (music project) `Continuum` is a collaborative ambient and drone music project between Bass Communion (Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree) and Dirk Serries (of Vidna Obmana and Fear Falls Burning). The project looks to expand on the artists` "collective ambition and vision, motivated by the...
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14. Continuum
    (Prototype album) `Continuum` is the second studio album by heavy metal band Prototype. The album was released on May 23, 2006 by Nightmare Records. "The Way It Ends" was featured as a bonus track in the videogame Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Track listing: # &quo...
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15. Continuum
    (topology) In the mathematical field of point-set topology, a `continuum` (pl continua) is a nonempty compact connected metric space, or less frequently, a compact connected Hausdorff topological space. `Continuum theory` is the branch of topology devoted to the study of continua Defin...
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16. Continuum
    (set theory) In the mathematical field of set theory, the `continuum` means the real numbers, or the corresponding cardinal number, <math>mathfrak{c}</math>. The cardinality of the continuum is the size of the real numbers. The continuum hypothesis is sometimes stated by saying t...
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17. Continuum
    (sculpture) `Continuum` is a public artwork by American sculptor Charles O. Perry located in front of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, United States.<ref name="Continuum">--> Description: The sculpture is a large swirling abstract that consists of 8 bronze pie...
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