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What does discontinuous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word discontinuous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. having breaks or interruptions; intermittent
  2. (mathematics) having at least one discontinuity
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Unfortunately, subaerial erosion has made the continental sedimentary record very incomplete and discontinuous.
Events, as elements of the discourse, or rather the pre-discourse, are irruptive and specific, and essentially discontinuous.
He is adept at using short and discontinuous notes to riff the rhythm and create tension.
Also important is his work on divergent series and discontinuous functions.
When the brambles became impassable, we would scrabble up the canyon sidewalls and work our way along slopy, discontinuous ledges.
It was at times less a guerrilla war than a conventional war waged on discontinuous fronts.

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