[
US
/dɪˌskɑntɪˈnuɪti/
]
[ UK /dˌɪskəntɪnjˈuːɪti/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪskəntɪnjˈuːɪti/ ]
NOUN
- 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.