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語源

Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).

発音

• IPA: /kənˈtɪnjuəm/, /-(j)ɪu̯əm/

名詞

continuum (plural continuums or continua)

1. 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.

   Near-synonym: spectrum

   • 2014, Torkild Thellefsen, Bent Sorensen, Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words:

     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.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:

     In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

2. A continuous extent.
   • 2012 March, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:

     A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

3. (mathematics) The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
4. (music) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are ⁄₁₀₀ of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.

同意語

• (set of real numbers): ℝ (translingual)

派生語

関連する語

• continuous

形容詞

continuum

1. inflection of continuus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

参照

• "continuum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)