discontinuous

Examples

• All

• If the mother's self-esteem is developmentally continuous, it would either increase over time or remain stable, while if it is developmentally discontinuous, it would decrease over time.

  Academic text (1997)

• At equilibrium, flat facets are found when surface tension has a discontinuous gradient with respect to the orientation.

  Academic text (2006)

• So this is our discontinuous wave function.

• This leads to a discontinuous process window curve as a function of pitch.

  Academic text (2001)

• Binary options are discontinuous payoff options.

  Patrick Boyle

• For instance, more sophisticated scenarios might reflect regional variations and the possibility of discontinuous jumps at critical points in the development trajectory.

  Academic text (1999)

• In his own work, therefore, Cage aimed to eradicate any organized structure of continuity, whether subjective or not, and pursued in its stead what he termed "no-continuity." In such a discontinuous composition, sounds would be made to follow each other in a manner indeterminate of the other sounds in the sequence.

  Academic text (1997)

• In mathematics, a discontinuous function does not have a defined value at certain points.

• The graph showed a discontinuous jump, indicating the function broke at that interval.

Synonyms

N

noncontinuous

vsdiscontinuous

5.8

Happening with breaks in time or place

applies mainly in mathematics to graphs or functions with jumps in value

Antonyms

C

continuous

141 3.7

Without a break or gap, for example in a curve

How Continuous

continuous

141 3.7

discontinuous

• Specialized

7.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology