Discontinuity

Word DISCONTINUITY
Character 13
Hyphenation dis con ti nu i ty
Pronunciations /ˌdɪskɒntɪˈnjuːɪti/

Definitions and meanings of "Discontinuity"

What do we mean by discontinuity?

Lack of continuity, logical sequence, or cohesion. noun

A break or gap. noun

A surface at which seismic wave velocities change. noun

A point at which a function is defined but is not continuous. noun

A point at which a function is undefined. noun

The fact or quality of being discontinuous; want of continuity or uninterrupted connection; disunion of parts; want of cohesion. See continuity. noun

In mathematics, that character of a change which consists in a passage from one point, state, or value to another without passing through a continuously infinite series of intermediate points (see infinite); that character of a function which consists in an infinitesimal change of the variables not being everywhere accompanied by an infinitesimal change (including no change) of the function itself. noun

Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. noun

A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap noun

A subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change noun

A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or not continuous noun

Lack of connection or continuity noun

A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap.

A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or discontinuous.

A subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change

Kill yourself. Urban Dictionary

When a person is mid way through an activity or task, but suddenly decides that there is something much more important they should be doing like replying to a text, or making daisy chains or even something very simple like deciding whether or not you need to take a shit. This syndrome is a reoccurring affliction that doesn't have a current cure. Side effects include - severely untidy home, unfinished paperwork, unemployment and even death. You can simply overcome this syndrome by not being a fucking moron and finishing what you started. EXAMPLE; *hoovering carpet but stops half way through* Person; "oooo I could really do with a shag" *leaves Hoover and goes to local brothel* Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Discontinuity

The word "discontinuity" in example sentences

Part of the reason why the alphabetic organization of this novel doesn't finally add up to much more than a modestly entertaining exercise in controlled discontinuity is perhaps that the underlying narrative is so familiar. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The focus on discontinuity is also the result of the current general historiographical tendency that (after and against Braudel and the Annales) privileges, in historical interpretation, "the event," understood as discontinuity and a traumatic transformation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In point of fact, this may be all Don Gagliardi intends to suggest, and certainly one can agree that the attitude of rupture and discontinuity is a problem as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This article will examine the academic study of English literature in the second quarter of the nineteenth century in order to suggest that literary scholars 'preference for metaphors of discontinuity is rooted in long-standing educational practices that have given the concept of literary culture its institutional form. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A different but comparable type of discontinuity is to be found in the story that climaxes his Neveryon sequence, "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals", where events in his invented elsewhen are intercut with events in New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Of course, as I am sure you know it has been argued that this discontinuity is only apparent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think we should also consider the possibility that the discontinuity is real. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But it would only be a discontinuity from a non-teleological perspective. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In this sense, de-Manian discontinuity is more radical "discontinuous" than discontinuity itself, that is, than any form of the discontinuous we can conceive of. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As will be seen, this discontinuity is epistemologically analogous to that of de Man's allegory and irony (there are further differences between both tropes), which serve de Man in his engagement with nonclassical epistemology, taken by him to, I would argue, just about the furthest reaches of its claim. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Man draws out the full implications of his 1967 readings of Hölderlin and Wordsworth and their disclosure of reversals and substitutions whose discontinuity is not temporal but rhetorical. ❋ Unknown (2005)

So while we're in this near-term discontinuity, the long-term, the value proposition is very strong.

We are confident that what we are seeing now is a near-term discontinuity in the long-term growth trend.

The bio parents, in this case, are unavailable, have been declared permanently unfit to raise the kid (in both cases, their desires don’t matter), or in the case of a temporary placement, any discontinuity is likely to matter very little.) — Beliefs of the various religious sects and subsects run all over the map. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Central England did not, but Fairbanks, Alaska did, but then Fairbanks did not or at least showed what Parker called a discontinuity when the effects of cloud cover were included. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Right now, there are many different judges that will often deal with one case and the discontinuity is a problem," Bala said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If this is a failure to comprehend the idea that there is a radical "discontinuity" between supernatural love and sexual love, then I'm at a loss to grasp how any of the sacraments effect God's grace to us, empowering us to participate in the divine nature (2 Pt 1: 4). ❋ Unknown (2009)

With all due respect to the memory of the 2,973 of our 300,000,00 citizens lost on 9/11 that did not represent the kind of discontinuity that comes from imperial overreach and internal moral and cultural decay that is emblematic of the end of empires in history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Mike Gene's Design Matrix it is called "discontinuity". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Please discontinue your life. ❋ Hi, I'm Steve (2018)

dumbass moron [affliction] syndrome [capiche] absolute [arsehole] discontinuation syndrome ❋ MasterCuntwalker (2016)

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