discrete
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Instead, it works as a multi-layered system where continuous processes influence discrete events, and discrete events reshape the continuous background, over and over, in an ongoing feedback loop.
From Science Daily
The current structure is built for discrete projects rather than missions.
Manufacturers’ fleets each year are required to average a certain number of miles per gallon with discrete benchmarks for passenger cars and pickup trucks.
It runs hundreds of pages and has dozens of discrete policy recommendations.
The hackers also built a system to break down each portion of the campaigns, from scanning for vulnerabilities to exfiltrating data, into discrete tasks that didn’t raise alarms, the company said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
