Associations to the word «Continuum»

Wiktionary

CONTINUUM, noun. A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.
CONTINUUM, noun. A continuous extent.
CONTINUUM, noun. (mathematics) The set of all real numbers and, more generally, a compact connected metric space.
CONTINUUM, noun. (musical instruments) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1⁄100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS, noun. (set theory) The hypothesis which states that any infinite subset of ℝ must have the cardinality of either the set of natural numbers or of ℝ itself.
CONTINUUM THEORY, noun. (topology) The branch of topology devoted to the study of continua, a type of metric space.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin