discontinuity
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English
Etymology
From Late Latin discontinuitās, from discontinuus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdɪs.kɒn.tɪˈnjuːɪ.ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌdɪs.kɑn.tɪˈnuːɪ.ti/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːɪti
- Hyphenation: dis‧con‧ti‧nu‧i‧ty
Noun
discontinuity (plural discontinuities)
- A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap.
- 2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 57:
- Shock waves are sudden discontinuities propagated in compressible media – usually air.
- (mathematics) A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or discontinuous.
- (geology) a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change
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Translations
lack of continuity
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point in the range of a function
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subterranean interface
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