Plural of continuum

Forms of continuum

Continuums and continua in a sentence

• So, the white line implies Blacklessness and the black background implies Whitelessness – that is, once the white line, a continuum, has emerged from blackness, also a continuum, and the two continua engage in an “inter-penetrative” (Buddhist term) process.2014, Torkild Thellefsen, Bent Sorensen, Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words
• The five fingers on each hand are punctuated continua like the nonadic nine planets.2020, John Krey, The Structure of Knowledge Using Natural Patterns, page 11. From the entry nonadic
• Like migraine headache, hemicrania continua is associated with nausea and vomiting, as well as sonophobia and phonophobia.2019 September 19, Steven D. Waldman, Atlas of Uncommon Pain Syndromes E-Book, Amsterdam: Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11…. From the entry sonophobia
• The Indo-Aryan languages or macrolanguages of the plains merge into each other, being on the local level made up of enormous dialect continua (e.g.1996, Bertil Tikkanen, "Languages of interethnic communication on the Indian Subcontinent (excluding Nepal)", in Stephen Adolphe Wurm et…. From the entry macrolanguage

Meaning of continuum

1. noun 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.
2. noun A continuous extent.
3. noun The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.

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Questions about the plural of continuum

What is the plural of continuum?

The plural of continuum is continuums or continua.

Which is correct, continuums or continua?

Both are used. continua is the more common of the two in English writing.

Is continuum countable?

Continuum is a countable noun.