单词	continuum
释义	continuumcon‧tin‧u‧um /kənˈtɪnjuəm/ ●○○ noun (plural continuums or continua /-njuə/) [countable] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINcontinuum Origin: 1600-1700 Latin continuus; ➔ CONTINUOUS Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Mental development follows a set course along a continuum. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As the first results came in, so too did the first signs of a strange disruption in the space-time continuum. At the bottom of the continuum are commonly used labels ranging from autocratic to laissez-faire. But still the image of a continuum persisted. From terns to peafowl, there is a kind of continuum of different criteria. Many mini-theories involve the r - K continuum. Piaget conceptualized development as a continuous process along a continuum. The structure now reflects the continuum rather than the discrete units we perceive. These values are assumed to reside in the cultural continuum which Bateson sees as stretching from 1200 to the present. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► hypothesis · Romaine, Le Page and Tabouret-Keller and others have raised serious theoretical objections to the continuum hypothesis itself, as described above. ► mechanics · The language of continuum mechanics is increasingly being used in modern material science.· This subject is broadly termed continuum mechanics and is an academic discipline in its own right.· In large-strain elasticity and in continuum mechanics the stress-strain law is non-linear and W is no longer a quadratic function of the strains.· There is in fact a great need for research in this area of the applicability of continuum mechanics.· This new textbook describes the Boundary Element Method, a powerful and accurate computational technique in continuum mechanics.· The continuum mechanics approach Continuum mechanics is a more general theory than elasticity theory.· At the beginning of the century it was believed that everything could be understood in terms of continuum mechanics. 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.
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