continuum

(noun)

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

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Examples of continuum in the following topics:

  • Figurative and Abstract Art

    • Art exists along a continuum from realistic representational work to fully non-representational work.
    • Abstraction exists along a continuum; it can formally refer to compositions that are derived (or abstracted) from figurative or other natural sources, or it can refer to non-representational art and non-objective art that has no derivation from figures or objects.

  • Services as Products

    • Services represent an integral part of many products and the correlation of goods and services is represented on a goods-services continuum.
    • It is this interconnectedness between goods and services that is represented on a goods-services continuum.
    • Most business theorists see a continuum with pure services on one terminal point and pure commodity goods on the other terminal point.

  • Service Marketing Management and Metrics

    • The marketing metrics continuum, shown here , provides a good framework for categorizing metrics.
    • The Marketing Metrics Continuum provides a framework for categorizing metrics from the tactical to strategic.
    • By navigating this metrics continuum, from Activity-Based to Predictive, marketers can move towards more effective marketing measurement and align measurement and metrics with business outcomes.

  • Theory

    • The learning model outlined by the Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) contains two distinct modes of gaining experience that are related to each other on a continuum: concrete experience (apprehension) and abstract conceptualization (comprehension).
    • The ELT model for learning can be viewed as a cycle consisting of two distinct continuums, apprehension-comprehension and intension-extension.
    • The ELT model shows that during the learning process, learners must continually choose which abilities to use in a given learning situation and resolve learning abilities that are on opposite ends of a continuum (Baker, Jensen, Kolb, 2002).
    • Indeed, learners approach the tasks of grasping experience and transforming experience from different points within a continuum of approaches.
    • However, it is important that they also resolve the discomfort with the opposite approach on the continuum in order for effective learning to occur.

  • Promotion Strategies

    • The Marketing Metrics Continuum provides a framework for how to categorize metrics from the tactical to strategic.
    • By navigating this metrics continuum, from Activity-Based to Predictive, marketers can move towards more effective marketing measurement and align measurement and metrics with business outcomes.

  • Dissociation

    • Dissociative experiences can be placed on a continuum from non-pathological to pathological, where pathological means "caused by a mental disorder."
    • Further along the continuum are altered states of consciousness which can lead to dissociation.

  • Measuring the Money Supply: M2

    • Instead there are several measures, classified along a continuum between narrow and broad monetary aggregates.
    • The continuum corresponds to the way that different types of money are more or less controlled by monetary policy.

  • Sexual Orientation

    • When taking into account the sexual orientation of your audience it is useful to consider it on a continuum.
    • Your audience could be made up of members anywhere along the continuum.
    • Most sexual orientation specialists follow the general conclusion of Alfred Kinsey regarding the sexual continuum, according to which a minority of humans are exclusively heterosexual or homosexual, and that the majority are bisexual.

  • Gender as a Spectrum and Transgender Identities

    • The gender continuum (sometimes referred to as the gender matrix) is an extension of this gender spectrum that includes additional gender identities.
    • A continuum is multidimensional, allowing third gender, fourth gender, fifth gender, agender, or genderless options, as well as many other possibilities and combinations; it is thus a more accurate reflection of the true diversity of human genders.
    • The continuum approach to gender identity provides individuals with more personal freedom in which to express themselves.

  • Sexual Orientation

    • Alfred Kinsey was among the first to conceptualize sexuality as a continuum, rather than a strict dichotomy of gay or straight.
    • To classify this continuum of heterosexuality and homosexuality, Kinsey created a six-point rating scale that ranges from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual .
    • Sedgwick recognized that in American culture, males are subject to a clear divide between the two sides of this continuum, whereas females enjoy more fluidity.
    • Alfred Kinsey was among the first to conceptualize sexuality as a continuum, rather than a strict dichotomy of gay or straight.