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What is a continuum?

What is a continuum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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.
  2. A continuous extent.
  3. (mathematics) The set of all real numbers and, more generally, a compact connected metric space.
  4. (music) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1⁄100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
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I've always written about the gay experience as part of the continuum of the world.
Alluvial fans and related phenomena are depositional landforms which form a continuum.
The lymphatic system is a physiological continuum, yet the inguinal lymph nodes are traditionally divided into two anatomical groups.
This continuum is then used as a grid in discussing the status of the varieties of Makua and their potential for language development.
His rigidity of thought means that this level of teaching must be professionally informed, monitored, and developed on a continuum at all times.
Japanese Gothic plots typically place humans on a spiritual continuum, a karmic wheel, rather than in a divided world of good and evil.

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