continuum

[ kuh n-tin-yoo-uh m ]

/ kənˈtɪn yu əm /

a continuous extent, series, or whole.

Mathematics.

Origin of continuum

1640–50; < Latin, noun use of neuter of continuus continuous

Continuum Health Partnership Conessione CHP is a Colorado-based oxygen supply company; Conessione is an investment company.

After Hobby Lobby, These 82 Corporations Could Drop Birth Control Coverage |Abby Haglage |June 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Phelps lay along a continuum of conservatism—not on the other side of a border from it.

Fred Phelps, Friend of the Gays |Jay Michaelson |March 20, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her first work, In the Continuum, won an Obie Award in 2006 for its portrayal of two women with HIV.

Danai Gurira, Who Plays Michonne, Says ‘The Walking Dead’ Isn’t Racist |Melissa Leon |November 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
This would make sense, if there was a cut-off somewhere along the vast “deodorant using—crop dusting” continuum.

Medicine Bedevils Pregnant Women With Too Many Warnings About Risk |Lenore Skanazy |October 26, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Most of them locate those four types of opinion on a continuum; the earlier ones, they say, require less time to create.

Constructive Criticism: Reviewing the Idea of Reviewing |Ben Greenman |May 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Any one who attempts to note all its successive aspects becomes lost in an infinity, as is inevitable in dealing with a continuum.

Creative Evolution |Henri Bergson
Of the celebrated formula, 'the continuum is unity in multiplicity,' only the multiplicity remains, the unity has disappeared.

The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method |Henri Poincar
The sensory data of experience always come in a context; they always appear as variations in a continuum.

Essays in Experimental Logic |John Dewey
It is not known if he ever found the integrated effect of the continuum of elastic connections in the pendulum.

Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 |Anonymous
The requirement of a continuum involves a gross form of the concept of efficient causation.

The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays |Thorstein Veblen

continuum

/ (kənˈtɪnjʊəm) /

a continuous series or whole, no part of which is perceptibly different from the adjacent parts

C17: from Latin, neuter of continuus continuous