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discrete
/dɪˈskɹit/
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What does discrete mean?
adjective
- Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.
- That can be perceived individually, not as connected to, or part of, something else.
- Consisting of or permitting only distinct values drawn from a finite, countable set.
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adjective
- Having separate electronic components, such as individual diodes, transistors and resistors, as opposed to integrated circuitry.
- Having separate and independent channels of audio, as opposed to multiplexed stereo or quadraphonic, or other multi-channel sound.
- Having each singleton subset open: said of a topological space or a topology.
- Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause.
- (obsolete) Obsolete form of discreet.
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Here, each bin is treated as a separate and discrete compost process.
The eruption starts usually with discrete papules, often in stellate groups, and generally arranged symmetrically when on the limbs.
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They postulate that the materials now composing the Sun, planets, and satellites, at one time existed as a spiral nebula, or as a great spiral swarm of discrete particles, each particle in elliptic motion about the central nucleus.