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Discontinuity  n.  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Discontinuity" Quotes from Famous Books



... adapted organs, e.g. the wings of a bird, could not have been developed in any other way than by a comparatively sudden modification of a well defined and important kind. Such a conception would allow of great breaks or discontinuity in the evolution of highly differentiated animals and plants, shortening the time for the evolution of the whole organic kingdom and getting over numerous difficulties inherent in the theory of slow and gradual progress. It ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



Words linked to "Discontinuity" :   discontinuous, Mohorovicic discontinuity, separation, continuity



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