Phrase Hound found 7 phrases and 7 compound words that contain continuum. The most common are listed below. Open continuum in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 7
- dialect continuumA range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
- continuum hypothesisThe hypothesis which states that any infinite subset of ℝ must have the cardinality of either the set of natural numbers or of ℝ itself.
- continuum mechanicsA branch of mechanics that deals with the deformation of and transmission of forces through materials modeled as a continuous medium rather than as discrete particles.
- continuum theoryThe branch of topology devoted to the study of continua, a type of metric space.
- language continuumA situation where two or more languages in the same geographic region merge together without a definable boundary.
- post-creole continuumA situation wherein a creole language consists of a spectrum of varieties between those most and least similar to the superstrate language.
- generalized continuum hypothesisThe 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).
Compound words 7
- anticontinuumSomething that does not present as a continuum.
- hypercontinuumThe set of all subsets of a set of with the (infinite) cardinality of the continuum.
- continuumlikeResembling or characteristic of a continuum.
- discontinuumA discontinuous series
- quasicontinuumA system that behaves as a continuum in most but not all respects.
- subcontinuumA continuum making up part of another continuum.
- supercontinuumlight having both high spatial coherence and broad spectral bandwidth; i.e. laser light that is not monochromatic