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discontinuity

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

How To Use discontinuity In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Theory ran forward to where they had been and saw the swirling drain hole of a discontinuity in the virtuality. METAPLANETARY
  • The sudden discontinuity was often poetically associated with the attaining of enlightenment.
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