plural of continuum

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.

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

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

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

(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.