ADJECTIVE
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not continuing without interruption in time or space
the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas
discontinuous applause
he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling - of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities
How To Use discontinuous In A Sentence
- There is nothing to say that such unbounded economic growth will not come in discontinuous lumps.
- Whereas autobiography may present a fictive vantage point to reflect upon the past, a film or video diary provides ‘a series of discontinuous presents’ as P. Adams Sitney suggested.
- Professional sport and amateur sport are now discontinuous. Times, Sunday Times
- He is adept at using short and discontinuous notes to riff the rhythm and create tension.
- No discontinuous change occurs in either the compression isotherm or the heating isobar.
- Splitting it into musical units allows the poem to be harmonious rather than discontinuous. The Times Literary Supplement
- In this discontinuous and heterogeneous present, the videomaker is witness, participant, and documenter simultaneously.
- The onstage version of "American Idiot" contains no dialogue, only intermittent snippets of first-person narration, and Michael Mayer's image-driven video-style staging is discontinuous to the point of plotlessness. Size Matters
- the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas
- Now of offices some are discontinuous, and the same persons are not allowed to hold them twice, or can only hold them after a fixed interval; others have no limit of time — for example, the office of a dicast or ecclesiast. Politics
