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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
continuum
 
SYLLABICATION:con·tin·u·um
PRONUNCIATION:  kn-tny-m
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. con·tin·u·a (-tny-) or con·tin·u·ums
1. A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division. 2. Mathematics a. A set having the same number of points as all the real numbers in an interval. b. The set of all real numbers.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin, neuter of continuus, continuous. See continue.
 
 
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