Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of continuity, logical sequence, or cohesion.
- noun A break or gap.
- noun Geology A surface at which seismic wave velocities change.
- noun A point at which a function is defined but is not continuous.
- noun A point at which a function is undefined.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fact or quality of being discontinuous; want of continuity or uninterrupted connection; disunion of parts; want of cohesion. See
continuity . - noun In mathematics, that character of a change which consists in a passage from one point, state, or value to another without passing through a continuously infinite series of intermediate points (see
infinite ); that character of a function which consists in an infinitesimal change of the variables not being everywhere accompanied by an infinitesimal change (including no change) of the function itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
lack ofcontinuity ,regularity orsequence ; abreak orgap - noun geology a
subterranean interface at whichseismic velocities change - noun mathematics a
point in therange of afunction at which it isundefined or notcontinuous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of connection or continuity
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Examples
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In point of fact, this may be all Don Gagliardi intends to suggest, and certainly one can agree that the attitude of rupture and discontinuity is a problem as well.
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The focus on discontinuity is also the result of the current general historiographical tendency that (after and against Braudel and the Annales) privileges, in historical interpretation, "the event," understood as discontinuity and a traumatic transformation.
A Timely Re-Read on a Critique of a Particular, and Popular, Hermeneutic of Vatican II 2009
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Part of the reason why the alphabetic organization of this novel doesn't finally add up to much more than a modestly entertaining exercise in controlled discontinuity is perhaps that the underlying narrative is so familiar.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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This article will examine the academic study of English literature in the second quarter of the nineteenth century in order to suggest that literary scholars 'preference for metaphors of discontinuity is rooted in long-standing educational practices that have given the concept of literary culture its institutional form.
Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008
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A different but comparable type of discontinuity is to be found in the story that climaxes his Neveryon sequence, "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals", where events in his invented elsewhen are intercut with events in New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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A different but comparable type of discontinuity is to be found in the story that climaxes his Neveryon sequence, "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals", where events in his invented elsewhen are intercut with events in New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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Of course, as I am sure you know it has been argued that this discontinuity is only apparent.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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I think we should also consider the possibility that the discontinuity is real.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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But it would only be a discontinuity from a non-teleological perspective.
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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.
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