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Notebook, 1993-

RELATIONSHIPS

Discontinuous










Lack of continuity, cohesion, coherence, sequence . . . Gap . . . . Ceasing to operate, administer, use, produce, or take . . . . To Abandon, terminate, come to an end, stop


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Discontinuity n [1570] 1: lack of continuity or cohesion 2: Gap5 3a: the property of being not mathematically continuous [a point of _-] b: an instance of being not mathematically continuous; esp: a value of an independent variable at which a function is not continuous

Discontinue vb [ME, fr. MF discontinuer, fr. ML discontinuare, fr. L dis- + continuare to continue] vt [14c] 1: to break the continuity of: cease to operate, administer, use, produce, or take 2: to abandon or terminate by a legal discontinuance -vi: to come to an end -syn see Stop.

Discontinuous adj [1718] 1a [1]: not continuous [a __ series of events] [2]: not continued; Discrete [__ features of terrain] b: lacking sequence or coherence 2: having one or more mathematical discontinuities -used of a variable or a function

[Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Springfield, MA, USA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1995.]




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