continuum

英 [kənˈtɪnjuəm]

美 [kənˈtɪnjuəm]

n.  (相邻两者相似但起首与末尾截然不同的)连续体

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牛津词典

noun

• （相邻两者相似但起首与末尾截然不同的）连续体
  a series of similar items in which each is almost the same as the ones next to it but the last is very different from the first
  1. It is impossible to say at what point along the continuum a dialect becomes a separate language.
     要说出同一语言的方言差异到什么程度就成为一种别的语言是不可能的。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 统一体;连续体
  Acontinuumis a set of things on a scale, which have a particular characteristic to different degrees.
  1. These various complaints are part of a continuum of ill-health...
     这些各种各样的疾病、不适都是身体健康状况欠佳的一种表现。
  2. It is at one end of the cost continuum.
     这位于成本序列的一端。
• N-COUNT 连续发生的事情
  Acontinuumis a continuous series of closely connected events.
  1. The medical professional bodies reply that development from fertilisation onwards is a continuum.
     专业医疗机构答复说受精以后的发育是连续的。

英英释义

noun

• a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts

双语例句

• Good and evil are two ends of the same continuum.
  善和恶是同一个连续体的两端。
• The finite-element method can be regarded as an extension of the displacement method to two-and-three-dimensional continuum problem.
  有限单元法可以看作是位移法对二维和三维连续体问题的推广。
• That's why we can't have a continuum of energy, we actually have those quantized points.
  这就是为什么，我们没有连续的能谱，而是，量子化的点。
• Current situation of research and prospects of bionic continuum robot
  仿生连续体机器人的研究现状和展望
• The angular part of a continuum wave function is, of course, a spherical harmonic.
  连续谱波函数的角度部分当然是球谐函数。
• The continuum theory certainly makes sense to me;
  统一体理论肯定对我来说是有意义的。
• All human behavior exists on a continuum between the poles of the ideal and the taboo.
  一切人类行为存在于理想和禁忌两极之间的连续区。
• Basic concepts of computer modeling in science and engineering using discrete particle systems and continuum fields.
  科学与工程问题中离散粒子体系及连续场电脑建模的基本概念。
• The relation between the Martin Axiom and Continuum Hypothesis;
  马丁公理和连续统假设之间的关系；
• We say that the real number system is a continuum.
  我们讲，实数系是一个连续集。