discontinuous
adjective
dis·con·tin·u·ous
ˌdis-kən-ˈtin-yə-wəs
-yü-əs
1
a(1)
: not continuous
a discontinuous series of events
(2)
: not continued : discrete
discontinuous features of terrain
b
: lacking sequence or coherence
2
: having one or more mathematical discontinuities
—used of a variable or a function
discontinuously
adverb
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