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continuum

/kuhn-tin-yoo-uhm/US // kənˈtɪn yu əm //UK // (kənˈtɪnjʊəm) //

连续体,连贯性,连续性,持续性

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural con·tin·u·a [kuhn-tin-yoo-uh]. /kənˈtɪn yu ə/.

    • : a continuous extent, series, or whole.
    • : Mathematics. a set of elements such that between any two of them there is a third element.the set of all real numbers.any compact, connected set containing at least two elements.

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Examples

  • A century ago, Einstein theorized that gravity is a warping of the spacetime continuum, and argued that masses in motion send out ripples at the speed of light.

  • Elite running coach Steve Magness and others have argued that each event has its own continuum from slow-twitch to fast-twitch—which makes it tricky to figure out whether you’re, say, a slow-twitch miler or a fast-twitch 5K runner.

  • I am totally just one voice in a continuum of voices, calling out for nature, from nature, for people to wake up.

  • The most recent epochs form a continuum from “old new” to “newest new,” and ages are typically named after the place in which they are defined.

  • With these symbiotic microbes, our existence joins the ranks of a continuum shared by many other beings that exist outside our bodies.

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

  • Phelps lay along a continuum of conservatism—not on the other side of a border from it.

  • Her first work, In the Continuum, won an Obie Award in 2006 for its portrayal of two women with HIV.

  • This would make sense, if there was a cut-off somewhere along the vast “deodorant using—crop dusting” continuum.

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

  • I know of no way of so identifying it except by discovering that it is delimited in a time continuum.

  • It was not possible to die from lack of air or from cold on a world without the time continuum.

  • Of the celebrated formula, 'the continuum is unity in multiplicity,' only the multiplicity remains, the unity has disappeared.

  • The mathematical continuum would be, in this view, a pure creation of the mind, where experience would have no part.

  • To learn what mathematicians understand by a continuum, one should not inquire of geometry.

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