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discontinuity

[ US /dɪˌskɑntɪˈnuɪti/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪskəntɪnjˈuːɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. lack of connection or continuity

How To Use discontinuity In A Sentence

  • One of the key themes to emerge is a debate over continuity or discontinuity.
  • The fact that these rocks were not supplying detritus to the sedimentary basin is consistent with the geological observation that they always appear covered by the younger deposits, with little or no discontinuity until the Devonian.
  • A literal translation is given of the Arabic themes to highlight the partial loss of orientation through discontinuity of theme.
  • Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning: they could not anticipate stability in government programs.
  • I think we should also consider the possibility that the discontinuity is real. A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria
  • The structural discontinuity between the shield and the horizontal lavas filling the embayment corresponds to the eroded scarps of the landslide.
  • I must have watched the thirteen or so hour-long episodes right through five or six times, with an undiminished pleasure, and undistracted by any sense of discontinuity with the book.
  • From my parents, who serve as a primary reference point, I begin to understand both my uniqueness and universality together with my continuity and discontinuity with the past and the present.
  • The world may have entered an era of extraordinary discontinuity, but the only way to insure risks is still to model the hell out of everything.
  • In this sense, de-Manian discontinuity is more radical "discontinuous" than discontinuity itself, that is, than any form of the discontinuous we can conceive of. Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics
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