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What does discontinuous mean?

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Adjective
  1. having breaks or interruptions; intermittent
  2. (mathematics) having at least one discontinuity
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Also important is his work on divergent series and discontinuous functions.
Events, as elements of the discourse, or rather the pre-discourse, are irruptive and specific, and essentially discontinuous.
If the negotiations fail we will ballot for action, and it will not be for a one-day strike but for escalating to discontinuous action.
He is adept at using short and discontinuous notes to riff the rhythm and create tension.
There is nothing to say that such unbounded economic growth will not come in discontinuous lumps.
These methods provide discontinuous measurements because air has to be pumped for a long time in order to obtain just one sample.

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