/kənˈtɪnjuəm ||; kənˈtɪnjυəm/noun [C] (plural continua /-juə ||; -jυə/) a continuous series of things, in which each one is only slightly different from the things next to it, but the last is very different from the first 连续体（后一事物比前一事物略微不同，但最后一物跟第一事物大不一样）