different between continuance vs continuum

English

Alternative forms

• continuaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English continuance, contynuaunce, from Old French continuance, from continuer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?nju?ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?nj??ns/
• Hyphenation: con?tin?u?ance

Noun

continuance (countable and uncountable, plural continuances)

1. (uncountable) The action of continuing.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:

     Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [1]

     […] the interview's continuance already had attracted observation from some topmen aloft and other sailors in the waist or further forward.
2. (countable, law) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.

Synonyms

• (action of continuing): perdurance, remanence; see also Thesaurus:permanence

Antonyms

• discontinuance

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contine? (“contain, enclose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?nju?m/

Noun

continuum (plural continuums or continua)

1. A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.
2. A continuous extent.
3. (mathematics) The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
4. (music) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are ¹?₁₀₀ of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.

Synonyms

• (set of real numbers): ? (translingual)

Derived terms

• continuum hypothesis
• continuum mechanics
• continuum theory
• dialect continuum
• discontinuum

Related terms

• continuous

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kontinu.um/, [?ko?n?t?i?nu.um]
• Syllabification: con?ti?nu?um

Noun

continuum

1. (music) continuum (type of electronic instrument)

Declension

Latin

Adjective

continuum

1. nominative neuter singular of continuus
2. accusative masculine singular of continuus
3. accusative neuter singular of continuus
4. vocative neuter singular of continuus

References

• continuum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin continuum.

Noun

continuum m (plural continuuns or continua)

1. continuum (series where neighbouring elements are very similar, but distant elements are very different)

Related terms

• contínuo