CONTINUUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: continua

Meaning:

A continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("continuum" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "continuum"):

history (the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future)

Derivation:

continuous (continuing in time or space without interruption)

continuous (of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity)