continuum

Definition

  • noun: a range or series of things that are slightly different from each other and that exist between two different possibilities
  • noun: a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees
  • synonyms: continuity

Examples

  • His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the 'continuum' between charitable and self-serving.

  • a 'continuum' of temperatures ranging from very cold to very hot

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I knew she wasn't the first, but I thought maybe the last. Well, Ava doesn't exist in isolation any more than you or me. She's part of a continuum. So Version . and so on. And each time they get a little bit better. When you make a new model, what do you do with the old one? (..)
    2014 Ex Machina