Continuum
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Continuum may refer to:
- Continuum (measurement), anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition, to a different condition, without any abrupt changes
Companies/Organizations
- Continuum International Publishing Group, an independent academic publisher based in London and New York
- Continuum (design consultancy), A design & innovation consultancy with offices in Boston, Milan, Seoul and Shanghai
- Continua Health Alliance, an international non-profit industry group developing specifications for personal and individual healthcare
Games
- The Continuum, the browser-based fantasy collectible wargame
- Continuum (computer game), the North American version of the classic computer game Alpha Waves
- Command & Conquer: Continuum, a cancelled MMORPG in the Command & Conquer series
- Continuum (game client), a game client for the SubSpace computer game
- C°ntinuum, a time travel role-playing game
- The C.H.A.O.S. Continuum, a time-travel adventure game in the year 2010
- Continuum, a Vectrex game aka Sector-X III
- BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, a fighting game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
Film and television
- Continuum (TV series), a Canadian science fiction television series
- Q Continuum, an extended universe in the fictional Star Trek universe where omnipotent entities all known as Qs exist
- Stargate: Continuum, a 2008 direct-to-DVD movie of the Stargate franchise
- Continuum (American Horror Story), a 2013 television episode of American Horror Story: Asylum
- alternate name for the Canadian film I'll Follow You Down
Linguistics
- Dialect continuum, the transition of one language to another through a series of speech variations
Mathematics
In mathematics, "the continuum" is sometimes used to denote the real line, and more generally to describe similar objects
- Continuum (set theory), the real line or the corresponding cardinal number
- Linear continuum, any ordered set that shares certain properties of the real line
- Continuum (topology), a nonempty compact connected metric space (sometimes Hausdorff space)
- Continuum hypothesis, the hypothesis that no infinite sets are larger than the integers but smaller than the real numbers
- Cardinality of the continuum, a cardinal number that represents the size of the set of real numbers
Music
- Continuum (John Mayer album), 2006
- Continuum (Prototype album), 2006
- Continuum (Rainer Brüninghaus album), 1983
- Continuum (Ligeti), a composition for harpsichord by György Ligeti
- "Continuum" (song), a song by Jaco Pastorius released on his self-titled album, August 1976
- Continuum (music project), a musical collaboration between Steven Wilson and Dirk Serries
- Continuum (instrument), a continuous pitch performance controller developed by Haken Audio
- Continuum (jazz group), a jazz supergroup consisting of Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Ron Carter, Art Taylor, Kenny Barron
- Continuum (chamber ensemble), an American classical chamber music ensemble
Science
- Continuum morphology, in plant morphology, underlining the continuum between morphological categories
- Continuum concept, in psychology, Jean Liedloff's articulation of the natural principles upon which attachment parenting was founded
- Continuum mechanics, a branch of physics that deals with continuous matter
- Space-time continuum, any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum
- Continuum theory of specific heats of solids — see Debye model
- Triune continuum, trinity of continual representations in general system modeling defined in the theory of triune continuum, used in the Triune continuum paradigm
Other
- Continuum (sculpture), a 1976 public artwork by American sculptor Charles O. Perry
- Continuum, aka Continuing Anglican movement, dissenting churches who have left the Anglican Communion
- "Consciousness Continuüm" or the Mindstream (Sanskrit: citta-santāna)
- Continuum (dream), a type of false awakening
- Apache Continuum, a continuous integration server for building Java-based projects
- Continuum Morphology is an interpretation of morphology in biology proposed by Rolf Sattler
- Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management#Continuum, the rolling seminar series, an annual event at the school
- Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
- Continuum, the magazine of the University of Utah
- Continuum (magazine), a pseudoscientific magazine
- Continuum Movement, a somatic education method using sound, breath, and movement, developed in the 1960's by Emilie Conrad.
- Continuum, a series of four science fiction anthologies edited by Roger Elwood in 1974–75
- Heterosexual–homosexual continuum
- Continüm Comics, an American comic book publisher
- The Enterprise Continuum is a concept within TOGAF for classifying elements of enterprise architecture.
See also
- Continuity
- Kontinuum, Icelandic music band
- Kontinuum (album), album by Klaus Schulze