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continuum
A continuousseries 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.
(music) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1⁄100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
“Everything in the universe is dependent on something without itself for the continuance of its existence.”
“Our calculations provide the exact cost increases necessary for the continuance of the program.”
“If the country had been unfortunately subjected to the excitement of a long continuance of excessive expenditure, it surely must be against all analogy and all general principles.”
“The two continuums frequently overlap, which is what makes it hard to decipher all the metamessages at play in a conversation.”
“No analysis connects themes to their historical context, literary tropes, or traditional folkloric continuums.”
“Do expatriate writers and artists create cultural continuums that have more to do with a sense of regional internationalism than the binary of motherland and exile?”