discontinuity

discontinuity
Synonyms and related words:
Doppler effect, about-face, abstraction, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alienation, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, arrearage, arrhythmia, betterment, breach, break, brokenness, caesura, capriciousness, change, change of heart, changeableness, choppiness, clearance, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defalcation, defect, defection, deficiency, deficit, degeneration, degenerative change, deracination, desultoriness, detachment, deterioration, deviation, difference, disarrangement, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, displacement, distance between, disunion, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, divorce, divorcement, double space, eccentricity, em space, en space, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, fitting, flip-flop, fluctuation, forcible shift, freeboard, gap, gradual change, hair space, half space, heterotopia, hiatus, hole, improvement, incoherence, inconstancy, interim, intermediate space, intermittence, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, irregularity, isolation, jerkiness, jump, lack, lacuna, leap, leeway, luxation, margin, melioration, missing link, mitigation, modification, modulation, need, nonuniformity, omission, opening, outage, overthrow, parting, partition, patchiness, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, red shift, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, removal, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, ripping out, room, roughness, segmentation, separation, separatism, shift, shortage, single space, space, space between, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, subdivision, subtraction, sudden change, switch, time interval, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, ullage, uncertainty, unevenness, unhinging, unjointing, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, upheaval, uprooting, variability, variation, variety, violent change, want, wantage, whimsicality, withdrawal, wobble, worsening, zoning

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  • Discontinuity — Dis*con ti*nu i*ty, n. Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. Discontinuity of surface. Boyle. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Discontinuity — Discontinuity. См. Нарушение сплошности. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …   Словарь металлургических терминов

  • discontinuity — index anacoluthon, deviation, difference, disturbance, hiatus, incoherence, irregularity, non sequitur …   Law dictionary

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  • Discontinuity — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Interrupted sequence. < N PARAG:Discontinuity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 discontinuity discontinuity Sgm: N 1 disjunction disjunction &c. 44 Sgm: N 1 anacoluthon anacoluthon Sgm: N 1 interruption interruption break… …   English dictionary for students

  • discontinuity — dis|con|ti|nu|i|ty [ˌdıskɔntıˈnju:ıti US ka:ntıˈnu: ] n plural discontinuities 1.) a sudden change or pause in a process discontinuity between ▪ the policy discontinuities between the present and previous governments 2.) [U] when a process is not …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • discontinuity — [[t]dɪ̱skɒ̱ntɪnju͟ːɪti, AM nu͟ː [/t]] discontinuities N VAR Discontinuity in a process is a lack of smooth or continuous development. [FORMAL] The text is good in parts, but suffers from discontinuity... There may appear to be discontinuities… …   English dictionary

  • discontinuity — UK [ˌdɪskɒntɪˈnjuːətɪ] / US [ˌdɪskɑntɪˈnuətɪ] noun Word forms discontinuity : singular discontinuity plural discontinuities formal a) [countable] a break in a process that is continuous except for this b) [uncountable] the state of not being… …   English dictionary

  • discontinuity — noun Date: 1570 1. lack of continuity or cohesion 2. gap 5 3. a. the property of being not mathematically continuous < a point of discontinuity > b. an instance of …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • discontinuity — /dis kon tn ooh i tee, yooh /, n., pl. discontinuities. 1. lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity. 2. a break or gap: The surface of the moon is characterized by major discontinuities. 3. Math. a point… …   Universalium

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