The phrase "a continuum like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing something to a continuum or describing a similarity in nature or function.
Example: "The relationship between the two variables can be described as a continuum like the spectrum of colors in a rainbow."
Alternatives: "a spectrum similar to" or "a range akin to".
Microphotoluminescence excitation spectra for neutral excitons revealed a continuum-like tail and a number of sharp resonances above the detection energy [7].
What causes the appearance of a continuum-like organization of neuronal properties within the supragranular compartment?
The case is typical in showing clear genotypic clusters corresponding to parentals, F1's, F2's, and backcrosses in the first two generations, followed by a few generations with high variance of S, effectively looking like a continuum between backcross-like and F2-like genotypes (0.25 < S < 0.75, H I near 0.5).
As with Leibniz, Whitehead recognizes a continuum of mind-like qualities ranging from very primitive feelings to the most advanced form of self-awareness.
We do not claim to make a binary distinction here: As the amount of contact-induced change differs from language to language, so do the underlying evolutionary processes, and it is rather a continuum between strictly tree-like and strictly network-like evolution that we are dealing with.
"Nature tends to like a continuum of colors, so this caught us by surprise," Tegler says.
It's a continuum that things like Amazon's Dash, connected cars and smart meters usher us along, rather than a state that we suddenly enter.
By providing a continuum of care like we do at Interim HealthCare, you naturally transition from the physician's office or the hospital to the home.
Mantua is one of those Italian towns that lives in the past and the present with such style that history becomes a continuum – more like a series of connected rooms than a set of disappearances.
