continuum

Definitions

A Latin neuter noun (continuum, 'a continuous thing') borrowed whole into English. It names a smooth, gapless scale where things shade into each other — a political continuum, the space-time continuum. Plural is the Latin 'continua.'

Common Collocations

• 1.on a continuum在连续谱上
• 2.space-time continuum时空连续体
• 3.a continuum of……的连续谱

Example Sentences

• 1.

  Gender is increasingly seen as a continuum rather than two boxes.

• 2.

  These styles sit at opposite ends of a continuum.