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Discontinuous

adjective

Of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities.

Not continuing without interruption in time or space. Synonym: noncontinuous. "The landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas" , "He received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling"

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"Discontinuous" Quotes from Famous Books

... seemed to explode the scientific magazine, bringing thought, for the time, to a standstill; though, in the line of thought-movement in history, radium was merely the next position, familiar and inexplicable since Zeno and his arrow: continuous from the beginning of time, and discontinuous at each successive point. History set it down on the record — pricked its position on the chart — and waited to be led, or ...

— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... friend, that, all my days, Hast poured from that syringa thicket The quaintly discontinuous lays To which I hold ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

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