continuum

Word family adjectivecontinuablecontinualcontinuantcontinuatecontinuativecontinuedcontinuousadverbcontinuallycontinuedlycontinuouslynouncontinuancecontinuationcontinuatorcontinuednesscontinuercontinuitycontinuocontinuousnesscontinuumcontinuing educationcontinuity announcerverbcontinue

con·tin·u·um /kənˈtɪnjuəm/ noun (plural continuums or continua /-njuə/) [countableC] formal

DEVELOPa scale of related things on which each one is only slightly different from the one before 统一体；连续体

The Creole language is really various dialects arranged on a continuum.

克里奥耳语其实是多种方言的一个统一体。

All the organisms in an ecosystem are part of an evolutionary continuum.

生态系统中的所有生物都是进化连续体的一个环节。

Examples from the Corpus

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

词汇	continuum
释义	continuum Word family adjectivecontinuablecontinualcontinuantcontinuatecontinuativecontinuedcontinuousadverbcontinuallycontinuedlycontinuouslynouncontinuancecontinuationcontinuatorcontinuednesscontinuercontinuitycontinuocontinuousnesscontinuumcontinuing educationcontinuity announcerverbcontinue con·tin·u·um /kənˈtɪnjuəm/ ●○○ noun (plural continuums or continua /-njuə/) [countableC] formal DEVELOPa scale of related things on which each one is only slightly different from the one before 统一体；连续体 The Creole language is really various dialects arranged on a continuum. 克里奥耳语其实是多种方言的一个统一体。 All the organisms in an ecosystem are part of an evolutionary continuum. 生态系统中的所有生物都是进化连续体的一个环节。 Examples from the Corpus 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
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