Continuum

There is no room for a vacuum in a continuum.

To be considered as a scale, the construct under consideration should be a continuum, with quantitative units.

We live in a space-time continuum.

Northern Berber is a continuum of dialects spoken in the northern part of North Africa.

Northern Berber is a dialect continuum composed of several mutually intelligible dialects including Kabyle, Riffian, Shenwa, and Shawi.

Kabyle, Shawi, Shenwa, and Riffian are all mutually intelligible dialects of the same Northern Berber dialect continuum.

Near-synonym: spectrum

So, the white line implies Blacklessness and the black background implies Whitelessness – that is, once the white line, a continuum, has emerged from blackness, also a continuum, and the two continua engage in an “inter-penetrative” (Buddhist term) process.

In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

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.