About The Word Discontinuous
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Discontinuous
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What's The Definition Of Discontinuous?
[adj] not continuing without interruption in time or space; "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling"
[adj] (mathematics) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities Synonyms | Synonyms for Discontinuous: disjunct | disrupted | noncontinuous Related Terms | Find terms related to Discontinuous: aimless | aloof | amorphous | apart | asunder | bipartite | broken | broken off | capricious | careening | casual | catchy | chopped-off | choppy | decousu | desultory | detached | deviative | dichotomous | disarticulated | disconnected | discontinued | discrete | disjointed | disjunct | disjunctive | disordered | dispersed | disproportionate | distinct | divergent | eccentric | episodic | erratic | fitful | flickering | fluctuating | formless | frivolous | gapped | gratuitous | guttering | halting | haphazard | herky-jerky | heteroclite | hit-or-miss | immethodical | in two | inchoate | incoherent | inconsistent | inconstant | indiscriminate | insular | intermittent | intermitting | interrupted | irregular | jagged | jerky | lurching | meaningless | misshapen | muddled | nonadherent | nonadhesive | noncoherent | noncohesive | noncontinuous | nonlinear | nonsequential | nonserial | nonsymmetrical | nonsystematic | nonuniform | open | orderless | parenthetic | partitioned | patchy | planless | promiscuous | rambling | random | rough | scrappy | senseless | separate | shapeless | snatchy | spasmatic | spasmic | spasmodic | spastic | sporadic | spotty | staggering | straggling | straggly | suspended | systemless | tenuous | unadhesive | unarranged | unassociated | unattached | unattended | uncertain | unclassified | uncoherent | uncohesive | unconnected | undirected | unequal | uneven | ungraded | unjoined | unmethodical | unmetrical | unordered | unorganized | unregular | unrhythmical | unsettled | unsorted | unsteady | unsuccessive | unsymmetrical | unsystematic | untenacious | ununiform | vague | variable | veering | wandering | wavering | wobbling | wobbly Discontinuous In Webster's Dictionary \Dis`con*tin"u*ous\, a.
1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and
intersected at every turn by human negligence. --De
Quincey.
2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.
``Discontinuous wound.'' --Milton.
{Discontinuous function} (Math.), a function which for
certain values or between certain values of the variable
does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The
discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt
change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change
in its law of variation, or the function may become
imaginary.
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