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discrete
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" [syn: distinct ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discrete \Dis*crete"\, a. [L. discretus, p. p. of discernere. See Discreet .] Separate; distinct; disjunct. --Sir M. Hale. Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, ``I resign my life, but not my honor,'' is a discrete proposition. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN entity ▪ This is quite different to a group portrait, which is a well-defined, discrete entity that we can adopt unilaterally. ▪ They are an extension of his nuclear family but also a discrete entity . unit ▪ The ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous. 2 That can be perceived individually and not as connected to, or part of something else. 3 (context electrical engineering English) Having separate electronic components, such as individual resistors ...
Usage examples of discrete.
Commander Quentin was staring at was no longer filled with discrete little red dots but rather with large circles.
He must then be discrete about what he learns, thoughtful, careful with details and an experienced leader of men.
It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles, each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future.
Lot caught the edge of a sense of vastness, no more, before it vanished into a pointillistic cynicism shimmering in discrete specks upon the air.
Moon walked with Sparks, trailed by a discrete retinue, among the creakings and sighings of the restless ships, the dim, echoing voices of their weary crews.
Carroll has read that identical twins come from the same egg, not complete individuals, but discrete halves of a mystical whole.
A common follow-on conclusion is that scales exist so that the brain can categorise pitch values, similarly to how it categorises other continuums into discrete values, as happens with vowel sounds and colours.
Like all vibrations or wavelike disturbances, quantum mechanics implies that they can exist only in discrete units.
Even if we reject the idea, discussed in Chapter 9, of a cellular alphabet of memory, connectionist theories would imply that the site of the memory was a discrete albeit distributed ensemble of cells.
Ray grabbed the laser cannon and, after firing a couple of attention-getting blasts at the armored cars, adjusted the setting to emit discrete energy pulses, stellar-hot lightning bolts that would make short work of the hoverbikes, shields or no.
Strange, she thought, how the integers, which are discrete, and our attempts to chart time, which is continuous, may well combine to give us a common area of reference with extraterrestrials.
I think I understand the game and I will risk two, no three, terces, and I hereby bet one discrete, solid and whole terce on the first sally.
In my right hand I held Alamogordo, its bright blade, englyphed with the map of our ancient trek to Treet Hoown, covered in small discrete droplets of blood red as blossoms.
In my right hand I held Alamogordo, its bright blade, en-glyphed with the map of our ancient trek to Treet Hoown, covered in small discrete droplets of blood red as blossoms.
Holes move, just as moholes seem to move, just as a discrete particle can separate itself from a continuously dense array, leaving behind its antiparticle or hole.