transcription, транскрипция: [ kən-ˈtin-yü-əm ]
noun
( plural con·tin·ua -yü-ə ; also -u·ums )
Etymology: Latin, neuter of continuus
Date: 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 continuum 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