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1: a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees <“good” and “bad”…stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line
— Wayne Shumaker>2: the set of real numbers including both the rationals and the irrationals
; broadly : a compact set which cannot be separated into two sets neither of which contains a limit point of the other
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