Adjective
Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.
Source: Webster's dictionarydiscontinuous 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