discontinuity
Etymology
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Etymology
From Late Latin discontinuitās, from discontinuus, equivalent to
discontinuity (plural discontinuities)
- A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap. [from 16th c.]
- 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. [from 19th c.]
- (geology) a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change
- German: Diskontinuität
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