different between progression vs continuum

English

Etymology

From Old French progression.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????????n/

Noun

progression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)

1. The act of moving from one thing to another.
2. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
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     The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.

3. (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
4. Development, increase, evolution.
5. (music) chord progression
6. (exercise) The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Antonyms

• regress
• retrogression

Synonyms

• (mathematics): sequence

Derived terms

Related terms

• progress

Translations

Finnish

Noun

progression

1. Genitive singular form of progressio.

French

Etymology

From Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.???.sj??/

Noun

progression f (plural progressions)

1. progression

Further reading

• “progression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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