Look up: continuum

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   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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   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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   Continuum
   Definition (undergraduate level) A set which is both compact and connected.<br /> This word is also used more generally to mean a set or thing which is continuous and has no gaps or breaks in it.
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   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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   Continuum
   `Continuum` (pl. -tinua or -tinuums) can refer to: * Continuum (theory), anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition, to a different condition, without any abrupt changes or `discontinuities` * Continuum (mathematics), the real line, or more generally any space, ordering, or cardinal that shares certain properties of the real line (e.g., `connectedness` or `size`)
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   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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   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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   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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   continuum
   Any set that can be brought into one-to-one correspondence with the set of real numbers. Examples include a finite line segment, a square, a circle, and a disk.
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