0 something that changes in character gradually or in very slight stages without any clear dividing points:
It's not "left-wing or right-wing" - political opinion is a long continuum.
Reproductive risk and the continuum of caretaking casualty.
In observational research in the general population, however, a continuum approach may be more useful than use of a qualitative cut-off point.
Reconstructive procedures, however, lie along a continuum, without any clear boundary between therapeutic reconstructive surgery for a diagnosable problem and purely cosmetic surgery.
As the industrial process involves large shear stresses, fibres will slip over one another, and we assume the material to be an anisotropic viscous continuum.
Moreover, because the invariant circle is an attractor, there exists a continuum of perfectforesight trajectories each leading to the circle.
In most instances, exposure to environmental risk also varies according to a continuum.
We consider a continuum model that makes no distinction between matrix and fibre particles.
Figure 1 outlines a continuum of possible outcomes of state multiculturalism.
