discontinuous

Adjective

Meaning

Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.

Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

noncontinuous separate unattached distinct broken isolated random alternate confused occasional discrete loose periodic irregular inconsistent
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Antonyms

continuous bulldog regular division difference scene
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Related terms

discontinuity

Examples

discontinuous applause Source: Internet

the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas Source: Internet

he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling Source: Internet

Arabic has a nonconcatenative "root-and-pattern" morphology: A root consists of a set of bare consonants (usually three ), which are fitted into a discontinuous pattern to form words. Source: Internet

At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forest or taiga, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuous closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous. Source: Internet

For a properly discontinuous action, cocompactness is equivalent to compactness of the quotient space X/G. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

discontinuity discontinuity systematics discontinuor discontinuously discontinuousness discontinuum