continuum

continuum
noun (plural continua; also -uums) Etymology: Latin, neuter of continuus Date: 1646 1. a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees <
“good” and “bad”…stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line — Wayne Shumaker
>
2. the set of real numbers including both the rationals and the irrationals; broadly a compact set which cannot be separated into two sets neither of which contains a limit point of the other

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