单词 | discontinuous |
释义 | dis·continuous 1. obsolete < with discontinuous wound — John Milton > 2. a. < a discontinuous mosaic of better watered and settled territory, embedded … in wide expanses of arid or semiarid land — Geographical Journal > < the boy received a very jumbled and discontinuous schooling — Louis Kronenberger > : not continued : discrete, separate < here and there were conspicuous elevations … but they were discontinuous features, not useful as regional boundaries — R.H.Brown > : lacking logical or organic sequence or coherence < a series of discontinuous events > < the tone poem is gay and always entertaining, but a trifle discontinuous > b. mathematics c. of a linguistic form < discontinuous morphemes > < discontinuous phonemes > • discontinuously • discontinuousness |
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