Continuum

Continuum may refer to:

• Continuum (theory), anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition, to a different condition, without any abrupt changes

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, a mathematical hypothesis
• Cardinality of the continuum, a cardinal number that represents the size of the set of real numbers

Companies/Organizations

• Continuum International Publishing Group, a leading independent academic publisher based in London and New York
• Continuum (design consultancy), A design & innovation consultancy with offices in Boston, Milan, Seoul and Shanghai
• The 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

Music

• Continuum (John Mayer album), an album by John Mayer released in 2006
• Continuum (Prototype album), a 2006 album by Prototype
• 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

Popular culture

• Q Continuum, a parallel existence 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

Science

• 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, the magazine of the University of Utah
• Continuum, a series of four science fiction anthologies edited by Roger Elwood in 1974–75
• Heterosexual–homosexual continuum

See also

• Continuity (disambiguation)