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. / A continuous extent.

plural of continuum

(topology) The branch of topology devoted to the study of continua, a type of metric space.

(set theory) The hypothesis which states that any infinite subset of ℝ must have the cardinality of either the set of natural numbers or of ℝ itself.

(linguistics) A situation where two or more languages in the same geographic region merge together without a definable boundary.

(linguistics) A range of dialects that vary slightly by region, so that the further apart two regions are, the more the language differs.

(set theory) The hypothesis that, for each ordinal 𝛼, there is no cardinal number strictly between א_𝛼 and 2^(א_𝛼), i.e. 2^(א_𝛼)=א_(𝛼+1).

(linguistics) A situation wherein a creole language consists of a spectrum of varieties between those most and least similar to the superstrate language.

Resembling or characteristic of a continuum.