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continuum
noun as in continuation
Example Sentences
A century ago, Einstein theorized that gravity is a warping of the spacetime continuum, and argued that masses in motion send out ripples at the speed of light.
Elite running coach Steve Magness and others have argued that each event has its own continuum from slow-twitch to fast-twitch—which makes it tricky to figure out whether you’re, say, a slow-twitch miler or a fast-twitch 5K runner.
I am totally just one voice in a continuum of voices, calling out for nature, from nature, for people to wake up.
The most recent epochs form a continuum from “old new” to “newest new,” and ages are typically named after the place in which they are defined.
With these symbiotic microbes, our existence joins the ranks of a continuum shared by many other beings that exist outside our bodies.
Continuum Health Partnership Conessione CHP is a Colorado-based oxygen supply company; Conessione is an investment company.
Phelps lay along a continuum of conservatism—not on the other side of a border from it.
Her first work, In the Continuum, won an Obie Award in 2006 for its portrayal of two women with HIV.
This would make sense, if there was a cut-off somewhere along the vast “deodorant using—crop dusting” continuum.
Most of them locate those four types of opinion on a continuum; the earlier ones, they say, require less time to create.
I know of no way of so identifying it except by discovering that it is delimited in a time continuum.
It was not possible to die from lack of air or from cold on a world without the time continuum.
Of the celebrated formula, 'the continuum is unity in multiplicity,' only the multiplicity remains, the unity has disappeared.
The mathematical continuum would be, in this view, a pure creation of the mind, where experience would have no part.
To learn what mathematicians understand by a continuum, one should not inquire of geometry.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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