discontinuous

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Discontinuous innovations are those that rise to the level of game-changing potential.

From Forbes • Sep. 29, 2014

Discontinuous variation is the variation seen among individuals when each individual shows one of two—or a very few—easily distinguishable traits, such as violet or white flowers.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

By the combination and repetition of a finite number of geometrical Discontinuous groups arising from geometrical operations. operations such as displacements, projective transformations, inversions, &c., a discontinuous group of such operations will arise.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

An admirable title for his biography would be, "The Fits and Starts of a Discontinuous Soul."

From The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster by Begbie, Harold

General features of Overlapping and Discontinuous Areas.—These numerous examples of discontinuous genera and families form an important section of the facts of animal dispersal which any true theory must satisfactorily account for.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel