Three vs Continuum - What's the difference?
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(cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as ; This many dots (•••).
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(of a set or group) Having three elements.
The digit/figure 3.
Anything measuring three units, as length.
A person who is three years old.
The playing card featuring three pips.
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.
A continuous extent.
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(mathematics) The set of all real numbers and, more generally, a compact connected metric space.
(musical instruments) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
As nouns the difference between three and continuum
is that three is the digit/figure 3 while continuum is 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.As a numeral three
is a numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; This many dots (•••).three
English
(wikipedia three)Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Numeral
(head)- Venters began to count them—one—two—three —four—on up to sixteen.
Synonyms
* (numerical value) leash, tether (dialectal)See also
*Noun
(en noun)- Put all the threes in a separate container.
- All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
Derived terms
* threefold * threepence * threesome * thruppence * three-upSee also
* (Symbols of number three in various numeral systems) * * : 3 * * : ?, ? * : * * * * * * * * * * * * : * : III * * * *Statistics
*continuum
English
(wikipedia continuum)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}
