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discrete

/dih-skreet/US // dɪˈskrit //UK // (dɪsˈkriːt) //

不连续的,分离的,分立的,离散的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
    • : consisting of or characterized by distinct or individual parts; discontinuous.
    • : Mathematics. having the property that every subset is an open set.defined only for an isolated set of points: a discrete variable.using only arithmetic and algebra; not involving calculus: discrete methods.

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Examples

  • In 1990, Keresztély Corrádi and Sándor Szabó came up with just such a discrete object.

  • In other words, rather than looking at nematode worm genes, we have a discrete population of humans who’ve already won the genetic lottery when it comes to aging.

  • Backlinks should be included in a discrete and meaningful way.

  • Molecular biologists must pinpoint which genes out of many thousands interact as a discrete network to produce a given trait.

  • To break these tasks down into little discrete jobs that could be performed really without much skill or knowledge.

  • And it has become a system far more driven by the demands of branding and marketing than by recognizing clearly discrete locality.

  • At this point, the output becomes the digital, discrete signal.

  • It was carried out over a period of a little more than two years in four discrete, limited-time operations.

  • The Executive is elected in broad national elections in which discrete and insular minorities carry less weight.

  • I finished a novel, El héroe discrete, that will be published in September in Spanish.

  • The lesions in this disease are commonly discrete—separate one from another—but they may be crowded together.

  • It seems that we have above treated of quantity, and classified both discrete and continuous quantity38 among other "beings."

  • This then is the element common to number (the discrete quantity), and to continuous dimension.

  • Musical tones are discrete,—the voice passes from pitch to pitch through the intervals silently.

  • Even the nervous system, which appears to act as a co-ordinating centre, is itself an aggregate of discrete cells.