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Lack of connection of continuity
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discontinuity
Word definitions for discontinuity in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linguistics, a discontinuity occurs when a given word or phrase is separated from another word or phrase that it modifies in such a manner that a direct connection cannot be established between the two without incurring crossing lines in the tree structure. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discontinuity \Dis*con`ti*nu"i*ty\, n. Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. ``Discontinuity of surface.'' --Boyle.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But suddenly, marking the transition to the Tertiary, there is a sharp global discontinuity in everything. ▪ It is argued that cultural discontinuities between homes and schools do exist, are inevitable and are to be celebrated. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap. (from 16th c.) 2 (context mathematics English) A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or discontinuous. (from 19th c.) 3 (context geology English) a subterranean interface ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lack of connection of continuity [ant: continuity ]
Usage examples of discontinuity.
And, of course, to await the arrival of what I like to call the Holocene Discontinuity.
As a geophysical oceanographer Suzanne was well aware that the Mohorovicic discontinuity was the name given to a specific layer within the earth that marked an abrupt change in the velocity of sound or seismic waves.
The Mohorovicic discontinuity definitely exists, and no one ever has been able to explain it.
It would be quite possible to drill there, into the top of the mantle, penetrating the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, however.
They were drilling a hole through the Mohorovicic discontinuity to the mantle beneath, a near part of the Earth that the creatures who inhabited its surface had never seen, never touched by drill, whose only evidence came through reflected waves of sound.
As the robot trolls back and forth, we use its videocam to hunt for a small and subtle discontinuity in the artificial surface: the sensor.
It seemed to Kirk that two of the faces might be human, though true detail was hard to perceive at this distance, especially through faceplates that reflected the blue and red plasma fires of the Goldin Discontinuity.
There had to be secure cutouts, discontinuities in the command structure, or the entire apparatus would have fallen in the first hours.
Thus ultimate discontinuity of personal selfdom reaches along linkages of S'eye connectives, repatterns all entities encountered.
Foucault himself abandoned the extreme relativism of this "archaeological" endeavor and subsumed it in a more balanced approach (that would include continuities as well as abrupt discontinuities.
In all this the continuities and the discontinuities are absolutely co-ordinate matters of immediate feeling.
They were unaware of the two discontinuities, had lost sight of them toward the end, and remembered them only in myth.
The only way to study the situation is to look at as many of the discontinuities as I can find.
We're out here to find out what makes the temporal discontinuities operate.
The real-world processes that they model, however, invariably lead to discontinuities when taken far enough, and the models turn out to be merely approximations that are close enough to be useful over limited ranges.