Other forms: continua
A continuum is a range with no sharp break anywhere along it. A continuum of care, along the continuum, the space-time continuum.
Saying something is a continuum is a claim that the categories people use are lines drawn on a slope rather than real divisions, which is why the word appears in arguments about diagnosis. The plural is continua.
1nouncontinuumA range with no sharp break anywhere along it.
“Health and illness are not two separate boxes but points on a continuum.”
continuum is a range.
Latin continuum is the neuter of continuus, unbroken, from continere, to hold together.
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English, today
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Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).
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