What is "discontinuities"

Usage examples of "discontinuities".

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.

Totally unexpected discontinuities and instabilities appear, in which the minutest variations of input send the results fleeing away to infinity.

His children will accept as self-evident the concept of evolution as a succession of discontinuities, and take for granted the impossibilities of today becoming commonplace tomorrow.

He remembered vividly the terrible blast of pain which had nearly finished him back in Deaner Beckmann's asteroid swarm, when the quantum discontinuities of Trumpet's battle with Soar— and the effects of Trumpet's dispersion field—had hit his EM prosthesis like a sledgehammer.

The forces he'd unleashed had killed him nanoseconds ago—a quantum eternity within the discontinuities of the event horizon.

Without transition the dark became a caterwauling blaze of light and discontinuities as matter cannon unleashed pure chaos.

Quantum discontinuities might reduce his equip ment's signals to gibberish.

If Calm Horizons and that UMCP warship are firing their matter cannon, maybe what I see are discontinuities leaking into the swarm.

There was no floating or moving swiftly through the tunnel like some of my subjects have described, and there were no dreamlike discontinuities or incongruities.