Words from Todays Newspaper: Word#3 of the day: CONTINUUM ‘At the same time, he placed the Congress in a historical continuum, sketching its journey from pre-Independence struggles through milestones achieved in social reform while in governance, to its embrace of technology in the modern era.’ [The sentence given above has been taken from todays newspaper (dated: Jan 20, 2014)]. The word ‘continuum’ refers to a continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, but the extremes (the first and the last element) are quite distinct. Let us look at an example that would clarify the meaning of the word, It is impossible to say at what point along the continuum a dialect becomes a separate language.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:30:00 +0000