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CONTINUUM
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Irregular inflected form: continua
I. (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)
