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- 1640s, "a continuous spread or extension, a connection of elements as intimate as that of the instants of time," from Latin continuum "a continuous thing," neuter of continuus "joining, connecting with something; following one after another," from continere (intransitive) "to be uninterrupted," literally "to hang together" (see contain).
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Jun 24, 2024 · 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. ( mathematics) The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space. ( music) A touch-sensitive strip, similar ...
Mar 9, 2021 · English-language works also find a place on this continuum and have real implications for the political and cultural life of hispanophone and anglophone communities in the US. Moreover, the central role of Latina/o translations signals the global and the local nature of the continuum. For the Latino Continuum embeds layered and complex ...
Despite the name of the society and the ostensible focus of Ponce de León’s talk, this meeting was not simply a gathering of friends and visiting authors from Latin America who found themselves in the vicinity of New York and who happened to love Cuban literature and the wider culture of belle lettres in the Americas. Ponce de León was surrounded by fellow exiles planning revolution. In ...
Overall, The Latino Continuum is a methodical, rigorous analysis of nineteenth-century Cuban and migrant writing, and it makes a vital contribution to our understanding of Latinx literary history and culture. It will be immediately indispensable to scholars and stu-dents in Latinx, US American, and Latin American studies.
Feb 16, 2022 · Carmen E. Lamas’s new book, The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (2021), argues that reading nineteenth-century Cuban and Cuban migrant writing from the vantage point of Latino studies—rather than of US American or Latin American studies—provides both a truer account of how people and texts circulated during that period and ...
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Feb 3, 2024 · continuus (feminine continua, neuter continuum, adverb continuō); first/second-declension adjective. continuous, uninterrupted, successive, lasting Synonyms: continuātus, diuturnus (temporal) straight, in a row, whole Biennio continuo post adeptum impe ...
Mar 16, 2018 · continuum. (n.) 1640s, "a continuous spread or extension, a connection of elements as intimate as that of the instants of time," from Latin continuum "a continuous thing," neuter of continuus "joining, connecting with something; following one after another," from continere (intransitive) "to be uninterrupted," literally "to hang together" (see ...
