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单词 discontinuous
释义 dis·continuous
\|dis+\ adjective
Etymology: Medieval Latin discontinuus, from Latin dis- dis- (I) + continuus continuous — more at continuous
1. obsolete : causing discontinuity : gaping
 < with discontinuous wound — John Milton >
2.
 a. : not continuous : marked by breaks or gaps
  < 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 : having one or more discontinuities — used of a variable or a function
 c. of a linguistic form : consisting of parts that are separated by other linguistic units of the same order or by parts of such units (as French ne … pas “not” in je ne sais pas “I do not know”)
  < discontinuous morphemes >
  < discontinuous phonemes >
discontinuously adverb
discontinuousness noun -es
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