Adjective : six discrete parts. ,a discrete variable. ,discrete methods.    From Dictionary.com. 

(Combine as one.) 2) Beckenstein limit paper, for letting us understand in no uncertain terms the discreteness of space-time and perhaps suggest our true “physical units” .. for surely we will find a representation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Physics Paper!] Reference

Continuity connotes unity; discreteness, plurality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference

Ashbery is stricken by the sheer discreteness of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [News at Eleven: The trick with [John] Ashbery is to relax.] Reference

The most obvious problem is the discreteness of the whole thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 12, 2003 - January 18, 2003 Archives] Reference

This conjectured discreteness is not a viable route to falsifiability.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

Beige is as elegant and ladylike as it gets note the emphasis on the discreteness of its sensuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

The opposition between continuity and discreteness plays a significant role in the philosophical thought of Immanuel Kant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference

There is no doubt that in the culture of male-female discreteness, transsexuality is a disaster for the individual transsexual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

A monad however, being a kind of synonym for unity and one-ness, may suggest both continuity and discreteness, at one and the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The closer I look at the argument, the more concerned I become about the discreteness and elementality of the items MTT offer as examples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are there discrete social mechanisms?] Reference

Plasma dispersion relations are based on this methodology, i.e., neglecting the discreteness of charge in favor of a smooth charge density.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mannomatic Smoothing and Pinned End-points « Climate Audit] Reference

All these ideas concentrate on the construction of notions of 'spacetime' that take on aspects of discreteness or 'quantum' characteristics of some kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference

All these ideas concentrate on the construction of notions of 'spacetime' that take on aspects of discreteness of 'quantum' characteristics of some kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference

In the Critique of Pure Reason (1781) Kant brings a new subtlety (and, it must be said, tortuousity) to the analysis of the opposition between continuity and discreteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference

Yet, in an overall sense, “Physical Science” of the nineteenth century gave decisive preference to “field” theory over “particle” theory, that is to continuity over discreteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

To constitute a DPS, the policy provides a population must exhibit (i) “discreteness” in relation to the remainder of the species and (ii) “significance” to the species to which it belongs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Distinct Population Segment policy (1996) under the Endangered Species Act, United States] Reference

Out of no amount of discreteness can you manufacture the concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference

Thus music and language share also the caracteristic of discreteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The aspect of duality of pattern is related to the discreteness of language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

They correctly attribute this compass rose pattern to discreteness in the data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Division of Labour] Reference

Language features discreteness: signal are constructed by smaller parts each one containing a message.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

All attempts made in this direction only further crystallise the identity and discreteness of the seeker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Indeed, such problems could never even be named, for in their discreteness they would cease to be philosophical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference

I expect the repeated values represent hidden discreteness in the cell phone timer, but you work with what you've got.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The discreteness is still more obvious when, instead of old things changing, they cease, or when altogether new things come.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference

But one can clear differatiate music from innate calls by complexity, productivity and discreteness to name only some features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Physicists are familiar with the fact that discreteness, quantum tunnelling, superposition and entanglement produce novel and unexpected phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [physicsworld.com: all content] Reference

This means that one must think of knowing-a-thing as an act of generosity, or salvific compensation for the exclusivity and discreteness of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corner on National Review Online] Reference

You can have experiences with them that bring you nearer to yourself, and absolve your discreteness, your particular isolation, into a shared continuity with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference

Now, this may seem to be a rather static point of view, as the decisionary powers, and the discreteness of Nation States has been, is being, undermined by various forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum: Europe - Analysis and Discussion of the European Energy Gap and Peak Oil] Reference

Perhaps it’s the opening narration, perhaps it was the discreteness of the scenes which made up the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The first readings & watchings of 2010 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference

When you talk of “neighborhoods” there’s a certain objectiveness and discreteness to such concepts that implies the presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – April – 28] Reference

Atomism was challenged by Aristotle (384 “ 322 B.C.E.), who was the first to undertake the systematic analysis of continuity and discreteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference