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Discontinuous

adjective
1.
Of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities.
2.
Not continuing without interruption in time or space.  Synonym: noncontinuous.  "The landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas" , "He received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling"





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"Discontinuous" Quotes from Famous Books



... animal psychology thereby become less discontinuous. I know that to some of you this will hardly seem an attractive reason, but there are ...
— Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals • William James
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... plate), then ribbed or gimped, and finally coiled into a rosette. The rosettes have sufficient spring to fix themselves in the holes of the lead plate, but are keyed in position by a hydraulic press. The plates are then "formed'' by passing a current for a long time. In a later pattern a kind of discontinuous longitudinal rib is put in the ribbon, and increases the capacity and life by strengthening ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
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... view that the transition from the humanoid to the human was effected by a discontinuous variation of considerable magnitude, what is nowadays called a mutation, and that it had mainly to do with the brain and the vocal organs. But given the gains of the arboreal apprenticeship, ...
— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson
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... economy. The flame only recklessly spends. The property of storage by the organism calls out a further distinction between the course of the two processes. It secures that the chemical activity of the organism can be propagated in a medium in which the supply of energy is discontinuous or localised. The chemical activity of the combustion can, strictly speaking, only be propagated among contiguous particles. I need not dwell on the latter fact; an example of the former is seen in the action of the roots of plants, ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
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Words linked to "Discontinuous" :   sporadic, disjunct, continuous, mathematics, disrupted, broken, math, maths, discontinuity


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