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IPA transcription: [dɪsk'ɹit]

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Adjective

  • 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.