Dictionary

continentality en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English continental Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English continentality From continental + -ity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The condition of being a continent.
2. (countable) The degree to which the climate of a place is affected by a large land mass.
   • Continentality (reflecting the difference between continental and marine climates) was, on average, the most important factor, contributing an average of 14.91% (based on permutation importance), followed by temperature seasonality… 2021, Hong Zhou et al., “Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses”, in Cell:

Forms