Discrete
adjective
Separate and different from each other.
The human body is made up of many discrete organs.
Often appears as...
- discrete units
- discrete variables
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Technical
adjective
Quiet and not attracting attention.
He made a discrete entrance to avoid being noticed.
Often appears as...
- discrete behavior
- discrete movement
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Formal
adjective
Relating to or involving separate things or events.
In mathematics, a discrete variable is one that can have only certain, fixed values.
Often appears as...
- discrete mathematics
- discrete function
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Formal
Technical
adjective
Separate and different from each other.
The human body is made up of many discrete organs.
Often appears as...
- discrete units
- discrete variables
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Quiet and not attracting attention.
He made a discrete entrance to avoid being noticed.
Often appears as...
- discrete behavior
- discrete movement
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Relating to or involving separate things or events.
In mathematics, a discrete variable is one that can have only certain, fixed values.
Often appears as...
- discrete mathematics
- discrete function
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Independent Entities
Refers to things that are separate and not linked to others in a group or series.
The gallery showed discrete pieces from different epochs.
Pro Tip 2/2Clarity in Analysis
Used when highlighting distinct parts that make up a whole, for easier understanding and analysis.
Each department had to present its own discrete set of data.
Pro Tip 1/2Independent Entities
Refers to things that are separate and not linked to others in a group or series.
The gallery showed discrete pieces from different epochs.
Pro Tip 2/2Clarity in Analysis
Used when highlighting distinct parts that make up a whole, for easier understanding and analysis.
Each department had to present its own discrete set of data.
Pro Tip 1/2Independent Entities
Refers to things that are separate and not linked to others in a group or series.
The gallery showed discrete pieces from different epochs.
Pro Tip 2/2Clarity in Analysis
Used when highlighting distinct parts that make up a whole, for easier understanding and analysis.
Each department had to present its own discrete set of data.
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A tale of mental illness...
said Marder. 'Okay. Small. Fire on ice. Tell them not to kill me. Tell them not to kill me. What have I done wrong? Hundreds of thousands with thoughts, interdiction.' 'Elyn, do you feel like you're dangerous to yourself or others? I think you need to be in the hospital. I could get you admitted right away, and the whole thing could be very discrete.'
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The deadly genius of...
in violence against other criminal organizations, they recruit gangs and other smaller players to do the dirty work for them, and they try to separate their operations and their violence and be very discrete about this. To further strengthen their brand, they actually have professional P.R. firms
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Ideasthesia: How do...
our sensory experience of the world would be an undifferentiated mass rather than the discrete objects we actually apprehend. For science, the task is to find where this network lies, how it is formed, and how it interacts with external stimuli. For philosophy, the challenge is to rethink
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Design at the...
Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions. But you don't find homogenous material assemblies in nature.
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Mark Pagel: How language...
you're actually using a form of telemetry not so different from the remote control device for your television. It's just that, whereas that device relies on pulses of infrared light, your language relies on pulses, discrete pulses, of sound.
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Uncovering the brain's...
which proposed the brain’s tissue was made up of many discrete cells, instead of one connected tissue. The neuron doctrine laid the foundation for modern neuroscience, and allowed later researchers to discover that electrical impulses
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Scientists "See" Ocean...
you know discrete locations but our map is continuous we can see the ups and downs the the ridges the ledges of the sea bottom and all of that is important information for our manager as well as to make the linkages between the
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How the worst moments in...
Identity politics can be narcissistic. People extol a difference only because it's theirs. People narrow the world and function in discrete groups without empathy for one another. But properly understood and wisely practiced,
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Particles and waves: The...
like the filament in a light bulb, but to do it, he needed a desperate he said the object was made up of oscillators that could only emit light in discrete chunks, units of energy that depend on the frequency of the light.
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How math saved my life PIPE...
video camera with individual discrete pictures helped excuse me having a brain injury sometimes causes memory issues here there we go
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A tale of mental illness...
said Marder. 'Okay. Small. Fire on ice. Tell them not to kill me. Tell them not to kill me. What have I done wrong? Hundreds of thousands with thoughts, interdiction.' 'Elyn, do you feel like you're dangerous to yourself or others? I think you need to be in the hospital. I could get you admitted right away, and the whole thing could be very discrete.'
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The deadly genius of...
in violence against other criminal organizations, they recruit gangs and other smaller players to do the dirty work for them, and they try to separate their operations and their violence and be very discrete about this. To further strengthen their brand, they actually have professional P.R. firms
Video examples
Ideasthesia: How do...
our sensory experience of the world would be an undifferentiated mass rather than the discrete objects we actually apprehend. For science, the task is to find where this network lies, how it is formed, and how it interacts with external stimuli. For philosophy, the challenge is to rethink
Video examples
Design at the...
Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions. But you don't find homogenous material assemblies in nature.
Video examples
Mark Pagel: How language...
you're actually using a form of telemetry not so different from the remote control device for your television. It's just that, whereas that device relies on pulses of infrared light, your language relies on pulses, discrete pulses, of sound.
Video examples
Uncovering the brain's...
which proposed the brain’s tissue was made up of many discrete cells, instead of one connected tissue. The neuron doctrine laid the foundation for modern neuroscience, and allowed later researchers to discover that electrical impulses
Video examples
Scientists "See" Ocean...
you know discrete locations but our map is continuous we can see the ups and downs the the ridges the ledges of the sea bottom and all of that is important information for our manager as well as to make the linkages between the
Video examples
How the worst moments in...
Identity politics can be narcissistic. People extol a difference only because it's theirs. People narrow the world and function in discrete groups without empathy for one another. But properly understood and wisely practiced,
Video examples
Particles and waves: The...
like the filament in a light bulb, but to do it, he needed a desperate he said the object was made up of oscillators that could only emit light in discrete chunks, units of energy that depend on the frequency of the light.
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How math saved my life PIPE...
video camera with individual discrete pictures helped excuse me having a brain injury sometimes causes memory issues here there we go
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Neri Oxman
American Architect
At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.
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Bill Clegg
American Author
Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.
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Chen-Ning Yang
American Physicist
The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.
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Johannes Stark
Physicist
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
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Sheila Heti
Canadian Writer
To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and complete thing, but also something that seeps out into their life and thoughts.
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Alfred Kinsey
American Scientist
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.
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Uzodinma Iweala
American Author
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
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Kara Swisher
American Journalist
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.
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John Shirley
American Author
Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
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Neri Oxman
American Architect
At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.
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Bill Clegg
American Author
Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.
Quote examples
Chen-Ning Yang
American Physicist
The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.
Quote examples
Johannes Stark
Physicist
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
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Sheila Heti
Canadian Writer
To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and complete thing, but also something that seeps out into their life and thoughts.
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Alfred Kinsey
American Scientist
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.
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Uzodinma Iweala
American Author
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
Quote examples
Kara Swisher
American Journalist
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.
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John Shirley
American Author
Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
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