CONTINUUM (continua)

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Irregular inflected form: continua   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does continuum mean? 

• CONTINUUM (noun)
  The noun CONTINUUM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CONTINUUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTINUUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("continuum" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "continuum"):

history (the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future)

Derivation:

continuous (continuing in time or space without interruption)

continuous (of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity)

 Context examples 

The integration of both discrete and continuum modeling techniques in representing distinct dynamics and topographic regions of a system.

(Hybrid Modeling, NCI Thesaurus)

The aggregate of past events; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present; a record or narrative description of past events.

(History, NCI Thesaurus)

A connected set of points constituting a one-dimensional continuum.

(Curve, NCI Thesaurus)

A registered nurse prepared in a graduate level adult nurse practitioner program to provide a full range of health care services on the wellness-illness health care continuum at an advanced level to adults.

(Adult Nurse Practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)

Understanding the carbon cycle involves research across the terrestrial-aquatic-ocean continuum, which this study shows is intimately connected, said Hedy Edmonds, a program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)

Helps speed scientific discovery and facilitates translational research by building many types of tools and resources that enable information to be shared along the continuum from the scientific bench to the clinical bedside and back.

(NCI Center for Bioinformatics, NCI Thesaurus)

A data type comprised of a set of consecutive low values, comprised of a date and time value that corresponds with a specific point in the time continuum, of an ordered base data type.

(Low Interval Point in Time Date and Time Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)