discontinuity
Pronunciation Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation Noun
discontinuity (plural discontinuities)
- A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap. [from 16th c.]
- 2012, George Dyson (science historian), Turing's Cathedral, Penguin 2013, p. 57:
- Shock waves are sudden discontinuities propagated in compressible media – usually air.
- 2012, George Dyson (science historian), Turing's Cathedral, Penguin 2013, p. 57:
- (mathematics) A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or discontinuous. [from 19th c.]
- (geology) a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change
- German: Diskontinuität
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003