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How To Use discontinuous In A Sentence

• The hanging-wall zone contained 33% of the copper and was the most erratic and discontinuous zone.
• The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
• But even to call this reversal a metaleptic metonymy would be claiming to know more than one can about the radically discontinuous nature of this reversal. Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
• Events, as elements of the discourse, or rather the pre-discourse, are irruptive and specific, and essentially discontinuous.
• The fundamental argument for its existence was the immediate appeal to self-consciousness; and it was further defined as indestructible on the ground of its being utterly discontinuous and incommensurable with its material environment. The Approach to Philosophy
• 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
• And the length of the curve is again a discontinuous function of the starting point.
• When the brambles became impassable, we would scrabble up the canyon sidewalls and work our way along slopy, discontinuous ledges.
• In western Thailand and eastern Myanmar, Mesozoic rocks are scattered and discontinuous, and outcrops of Palaeogene rocks are very rare.
• Similarly, according to many defenders of naturalism, philosophy is not discontinuous with science.