Discontinuous Definition

dĭskən-tĭnyo͝o-əs
adjective
Not continuous; broken up by interruptions or gaps; intermittent.
Webster's New World
Consisting of distinct or unconnected elements, such as the physical features of a landscape.
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Being without sequential order or coherent form.
American Heritage
Possessing one or more discontinuities, as a function.
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Discontinuous Sentence Examples

  • Modifications of the system have been adopted for bridges with discontinuous spans.

  • This series is of course discontinuous.

  • The discovery of this significant looped arrangement of the morainic belts is the greatest advance in interpretation of glacial phenomena since the first suggestion of a glacial period; it is also the strongest proof that the ice here concerned was a continuous sheet of creeping land ice, and not a discontinuous series of floating icebergs, as had been supposed.

  • Triassic rocks form a discontinuous band along the northern coast, and are especially well developed in the neighbourhood of Palermo.

  • The thinking flux also establishes a connection among spatially discontinuous elements.

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DDIDIS

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SUSOUS

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