Adjective : a discontinuous chain of mountains; a discontinuous argument. From Dictionary.com.
` A glimpse along the probability axis of a discontinuously probable object. '. From Wordnik.com. [Mostly Harmless]
Each band has a uniform colour standing out clearly and discontinuously against adjacent bands. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Intelligence is distributed in a bell-shaped curve, but beauty is bestowed discontinuously, on the star system. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond The Bell Curve] Reference
Continuing discontinuously the medieval theme, this week's Friday offering is my favourite Old English poem: Wulf. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
This mangrove ecoregion extends discontinuously, along a long line of the Atlantic Ocean coast, as vegetation patches. From Wordnik.com. [Rio Piranhas mangroves] Reference
If X is discontinuously manifest within W then P, "W manifests X as a feature," may be true or false at any one point within W. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
But the movement is not perfectly fluid; for it is broken up into elementary pulses of ideas, following discontinuously upon each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Coastal broadleaf forest was extensive and kahikatea swamp forest (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) grew discontinuously from Banks Peninsula further south. From Wordnik.com. [Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands] Reference
The best-known stands are in Australia, where mangium occurs discontinuously along the eastern coast of Queensland between Ingham and the Jardine River. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
A zone of high and moderate risk potential is projected to extend discontinuously around the Arctic Ocean, indicating high potential for coastal erosion. From Wordnik.com. [Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic] Reference
In actual experience the wage-unit does not change continuously in terms of money in response to every small change in effective demand; but discontinuously. From Wordnik.com. [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference
Among discontinuously distributed species, such as those living on remote islands, this pattern can be obscured by differences in local effective population sizes. From Wordnik.com. [Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic] Reference
The first is ˜The Postulate of Quasi-permanence™ which states that there is a certain kind of persistence in the world, for generally things do not change discontinuously. From Wordnik.com. [Causal Processes] Reference
Your theory people pronounce according to what they hear doesn't explain why pronunciations can change discontinuously: there is no gradation between 'eeconomic' and 'eckonomic'. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS.] Reference
Hence the discontinuous change of the wavefunction, which happens because our knowledge changes discontinuously when we make a measurement, is regarded by them as a problem, which they call the measurement problem. From Wordnik.com. [How many dimensions are there?] Reference
Roberts and Sharp came to the conclusion that the genetic information in the gene was discontinuously organized in the genome, a conclusion that contradicted the commonly held view regarding the structure of genes. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1993 - Press Release] Reference
It therefore came as a complete surprise when Phillip Sharp and Richard Roberts showed in 1977 that the mRNA sequence could be distributed discontinuously in the genome (the split gene concept; Nobel Prize in 1993). From Wordnik.com. [Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine] Reference
This formula has all sorts of problems starting with the fact that it makes no allowance for the possibility that one's income might discontinuously rise from a negative number (net of student loans) at, say, age 22. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth and Self-Control, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Consequently if it changes in energy from one value to the next permitted value it does so discontinuously, jumping straight from one energy to the other without taking any of the intermediate (˜forbidden™) values. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Kuhn] Reference
From their perspective, the risk of unpredictable global catastrophies increases with the rise of average global temperatures.16 The frequency of these dramatic events may rise discontinuously with the average temperature. From Wordnik.com. [Markets and Majorities] Reference
It is because life is absolutely continuous that we cannot, he says, understand it; for reason acts discontinuously, grasping only, so to speak, a cinematographic view of life, made up of an immense number of instantaneous glimpses. From Wordnik.com. [Bygone Beliefs] Reference
Since the energy is as the square of the velocity, if the velocity can only increase discontinuously by equal increments, the energy of the body will increase by unequal increments in such a way as to make the exchange of energy between bodies a very awkward matter to adjust. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Then, suddenly and discontinuously, it bursts into a boil. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Manifesto] Reference
In hydrogen peroxide bleaching, both continuously and discontinuously. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Zhong said that aircraft land discontinuously, which means that the electricity generated is impulsive. From Wordnik.com. [The Engineer - News] Reference
But these act discontinuously; and in the intervals the shallower levels of life tend to close in and shut us off. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
The vein trends east-west, varies in width between 0. 8m and 5. 0m and has been discontinuously recognized over a 2. 3km length. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
We found that the volume of spacetime between the two horizons approached a smooth limit as the charge was increased, but discontinuously disappeared exactly at extremality. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Variance] Reference
They generate catalytic gas 300o below thermal cracking temperatures, discontinuously in aperiodic episodes, and lose these properties on exposure to trace amounts of oxygen. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Hawking, Horowitz and Ross found that the entropy of a charged black hole approached a smooth limit as the charge was increased, but discontinuously went to zero exactly at extremality. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Variance] Reference
The Anna Lake Deposit is located along the southern edge of a 12 kilometer structural corridor that runs through the Bayswater claims and where repetition of the Post Hill Group mineralized sequence has been confirmed discontinuously along the length of the trend. From Wordnik.com. [Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed] Reference
Where does it increase discontinuously?. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Graham: Essays] Reference
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