See Also: per continuum(medicine)
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continuum(dictionary)

continuum (iou)



continuum noun. . M17.
[Use as noun of neut. sing. of Latin continuus: see CONTINUOUS.]
A continuous thing, quantity, or substance; a continuous series of elements passing into each other; Math. the set of real numbers.
space-time continuum: see SPACE noun.
A. E. Smailes No longer..a..dichotomy of town and country; rather it is an urban-rural continuum. E. Figes This endless continuum of days.
Comb.: continuum hypothesis Math.: that there is no transfinite cardinal between the cardinal of the set of positive integers and that of the set of real numbers.