continuum

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — Near-synonym: spectrum
  2. A continuous extent.
    — A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
  3. The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
  4. 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.

词形变化

continuums plural continua plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticontinuum continuum hypothesis continuumlike continuum mechanics continuum theory dialect continuum discontinuum generalized continuum hypothesis hypercontinuum language continuum post-creole continuum quasicontinuum subcontinuum supercontinuum
相关词
continuous

词源

Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).
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