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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.
  • Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning: they could not anticipate stability in government programs.
  • Yet they may have come across moments when they discovered a profound gap or discontinuity in their supposedly continuous self.
  • Neuhaus calls progs and trads respectively the left and right "branches of the party of discontinuity. How much can the smoke of Satan be dispelled?
  • The first is about the degree of novelty and difference represented by the current order, and is preoccupied by assessments of the elements of continuity and discontinuity within it.
  • With 14 illustrators contributing to the book, one might expect some obvious discontinuity among plates, but that is not the case.
  • Opponents of this interpretation had to stress the discontinuity of the development in order to undermine the plausibility of evolutionism.
  • He concluded that discontinuity patterns resulted from ecological and geological barriers at high elevations, attributable mostly to the effects of glaciation and volcanism.
  • However, there occurs 5-70 milligals gravity anomaly in this region, the residual anomaly being 30-50 milligals after eliminating the effect of Mohorovicic discontinuity.
  • Although I suppose the above changes are marked more by continuity than by discontinuity.
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