EGAVE

continuum

About 6.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A continuous extent.
  3. noun The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
  4. noun A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are ⁄100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.

Similar words

spectrum contiguity space-time networking sequence series process variety together gamut

Often followed by

of from is and in between that with mechanics

Word family

continua continuums

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