From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcontinuumcon‧tin‧u‧um /kənˈtɪnjuəm/ ●○○ noun (plural continuums or continua /-njuə/) [countable] formal DEVELOPa scale of related things on which each one is only slightly different from the one before The Creole language is really various dialects arranged on a continuum. All the organisms in an ecosystem are part of an evolutionary continuum.
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continuum• Mental development follows a set course along a continuum.• Piaget conceptualized development as a continuous process along a continuum.• But still the image of a continuum persisted.• These values are assumed to reside in the cultural continuum which Bateson sees as stretching from 1200 to the present.• Many mini-theories involve the r - K continuum.• From terns to peafowl, there is a kind of continuum of different criteria.• At the bottom of the continuum are commonly used labels ranging from autocratic to laissez-faire.• The structure now reflects the continuum rather than the discrete units we perceive.• As the first results came in, so too did the first signs of a strange disruption in the space-time continuum.Origin continuum (1600-1700) Latin continuus; → CONTINUOUS 