CONTINUUM


Meaning of CONTINUUM in English

[con.tin.u.um] n, pl -ua also -u.ums [L, neut. of continuus] (1646) 1: a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees ""good" and "bad" ... stand at opposite ends of a ~ instead of describing the two halves of a line --Wayne Shumaker"

2: the set of real numbers including both the rationals and the irrationals; broadly: a compact set which cannot be separated into two sets neither of which contains a limit point of the other

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