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Adjective
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constituting a separate entity or part
“a government with three discrete divisions”
“on two distinct occasions”
Usage examples
- This allows the fossils to weather out as discrete, often complete museum-grade specimens.
- In application, populations are generally finite, making the discrete version more realistic.
- The discrete cosine transform is applied to blocks of eight by eight pixels.
- A discrete lesion was discovered in the pre-frontal cortex that was never suspected.
- As with the Manchester Atlas, it used discrete components, in particular germanium transistors.
- The discrete valuation case is much like the complex unit disk, for these purposes.
- Development of Savage as a discrete card was discontinued.
- It is a discrete version of the Duffing equation.
- The probability amplitude supports calculation of probability of location or momentum of discrete particles.
- Averaging is a special case of discrete convolution.