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Adjective: discontinuous  `dis-kun'ti-nyoo-us
  1. Of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities
     
  2. Not continuing without interruption in time or space
    "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling"
    - noncontinuous

See also: broken, discontinuity, disjunct, disrupted, sporadic

Antonym: continuous

Encyclopedia: Discontinuous

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