Word of the Day:
continuum
What It Means
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.
A continuous extent.
The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
Near-synonym: spectrum
Continuum in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).
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