discontinuity
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Its source was located more than 20 kilometers beneath the Mohorovičić discontinuity, commonly called the Moho, which marks the boundary between Earth's crust and the underlying mantle.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026
Mr Wetmore says the industry has managed encryption transitions in the past, but “It's the sharper discontinuity that makes this threat more serious.”
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
Moments of discontinuity can also be triggered by external forces.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2024
It is unfortunate to see a discontinuity of those federal protections continue to emerge.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
He had discovered the boundary between the crust and the layer immediately below, the mantle; this zone has been known ever since as the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho for short.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Additionally, machines can take images of layers in multiple light wavelengths to spot folds and other discontinuities in the cores, which helps scientists link together and arrange the layers.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2023
Russia in the 20th century experienced two discontinuities: the 1917 revolution that created the Soviet regime, and the 1991 dissolution of that regime and the nation it had held together with gulags and barbed wire.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
“Breathless” is an artistic hybrid that seemed to capture the discontinuities and conflicts of modern life, half in the artificial public world created by the media and half in the deepest recesses of consciousness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Because its practitioners want to determine how and why contemporary phenomena came to be, they home in on the linkages, and discontinuities, between the distant past, the more recent past, and the present.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2022
Cooling curves of the purest iron show at least two well-defined discontinuities at temperatures more than 1,000°F., below its freezing-point.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
