The continuum is a range or series of things that gradually change but have distinctly defined extremes. A person may be a good runner on one end of the slow-twitch/fast-twitch continuum, but an elite marathoner on the other end.
The four basic parenting styles tend to fall on a continuum between those that are heavy on discipline and those that take a more child centered approach. A person's ability to tolerate lactose and gluten falls on a continuum that goes from ok to not able to tolerate them.
Einstein theorized that gravity is a warping of the spacetime continuum, which means that time and space are not separate but are instead part of a single thing we call time-space.
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