discontinuous
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˌdɪs.kənˈtɪn.ju.əs/
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discontinuo
- The report revealed a discontinuous timeline of events, with significant gaps in the data.
- continuous or discontinuous
- discontinuous pattern
- discontinuous change
There has been kind of just this successive series of kind of discontinuous breakthroughs as a result of neural networks.
- There has been kind of just this successive series of kind of discontinuous breakthroughs as a result of neural networks.
- The robot has something very discontinuous that happens when it makes or breaks, when it starts touching the world.
Examples
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In contrast, the valley bottom after beaver colonization is a discontinuous, longitudinal juxtaposition of patches with extensive impoundments, meadows, and free-flowing segments.
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Each station appears as a discontinuous time exposure, empty of human actors and exhibiting a meditative, even morbid, stillness.
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So we're going to show it's discontinuous at every single real number.
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So here we have a discontinuous behavior of nature.
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Work on the plot and action level has been discontinuous.
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If we were to talk about the scientific revolution, would we say it was continuous or discontinuous with the past?
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While in some important ways the "tradition" appears to be continuous, the context for it is discontinuous.
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There has been kind of just this successive series of kind of discontinuous breakthroughs as a result of neural networks.
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Only a small fraction of the original coastal vegetation remains, primarily as remnant pockets or discontinuous small preserves.
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Two observers working alternate shifts conducted discontinuous, round-the-clock monitoring beginning at least 48 hours prior to the detonation of explosives.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
5
7.0
Has small parts that are not whole or joined
4
5.1
Not in a clear order or logically linked
Happening with breaks in time or place
Made of separate parts that do not touch each other
Antonyms
How Continuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
discontinuous = continuous (transparent) = dis + continu + ous
This is a straightforward negative prefix added to 'continuous', yielding the predictable meaning 'not continuous'.
Etymology
Discontinuous starts with dis- meaning 'not' and the rest is continuous, like the common word continue, which means 'to go on without a break'. So a discontinuous line, event, or process has breaks, gaps, or interruptions.