discrete
Example Sentences
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The shocks of the past two years aren’t discrete events the Fed can wait out, said Daleep Singh, a former New York Fed executive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Light delivers energy to the material in discrete, or quantized, packets known as photons.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual,” noted Alfred Kinsey, author of the Kinsey Report and himself bisexual, in 1948.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Alas, they’re not thinking in the continuous sense you and I experience; they are merely providing themselves with a discrete sequence of internal prompts.
From Slate ● May 25, 2026
Even the development of an organism—the most obviously inherited chain of information—seemed to progress through smooth, continuous stages, and not in discrete bursts.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing discrete
Grade 12, List 1
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