continuum
FORMAL
con‧tin‧u‧um /kənˈtɪnjuəm/ noun (plural continuums or continua /-njuə/) [countable]
Irregular Forms: (pl) continua
پیوستار، پیوستگان، رشته مسلسل، تسلسل، پی درپی، مستمر، زنجیره، شیمی: پیوستار، روانشناسی: پیوستار، ورزش: متصله
con‧tin‧u‧um /kənˈtɪnjuəm/
noun (
plural continuums or continua /-njuə/)
[countable] formal[
Date: 1600-1700;
Language: Latin;
Origin: continuus; ⇒ continuous]
a scale of related things on which each one is only slightly different from the one before:
The Creole language is really various dialects arranged on a continuum. All the organisms in an ecosystem are part of an evolutionary continuum. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲