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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Discontinuous \Dis`con*tin"u*ous\, a.
     1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and
              intersected at every turn by human negligence. --De
                                                    Quincey.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.
        ``Discontinuous wound.'' --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for
        certain values or between certain values of the variable
        does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The
        discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt
        change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change
        in its law of variation, or the function may become
        imaginary.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Discontinuous \Dis`con*tin"u*ous\, a.
     1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
  
              A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and
              intersected at every turn by human negligence. --De
                                                    Quincey.
  
     2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.
        ``Discontinuous wound.'' --Milton.
  
     Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for
        certain values or between certain values of the variable
        does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The
        discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt
        change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change
        in its law of variation, or the function may become
        imaginary.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  discontinuous
       adj 1: of a function or curve; possessing one or more
              discontinuities [ant: continuous]
       2: not continuing without interruption in time or space;
          "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a
          discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he
          received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling"
          [syn: noncontinuous] [ant: continuous]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  discontinuous
     a.
     1 having breaks or interruptions; intermittent
     2 (lb en mathematics) having at least one discontinuity

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  discontinuous
     a.
     1 having breaks or interruptions; intermittent
     2 (lb en mathematics) having at least one discontinuity

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  discontinuous
     a.
     1 having breaks or interruptions; intermittent
     2 (lb en mathematics) having at least one discontinuity

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  discontinuous
     a.
     1 having breaks or interruptions; intermittent
     2 (lb en mathematics) having at least one discontinuity

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  discontinuous
     Engelska a.
     (tagg språk=en matematik) diskontinuerlig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  متقطع

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/ 
  прекъснат
  in mathematics

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/ 
  nesouvislý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  přerušovaný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  diskontinuální

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  diskontinuierlich 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  unstetig  [math.]

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  unterbrochen, nicht zusammenhängend 

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/ 
  epäjatkuva
  in mathematics

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  diskontinuiran, diskontinuirano

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  1. diszkontinuus
  2. összefüggéstelen
  3. nem folytonos
  4. szakaszos
  5. megszakításos

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/ 
  diskontinuerlig
  in mathematics

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  discontinuous /dɪskəntˈɪnjuːəs/
  1. devamsız, fasılalı, ayrılmış, ayrı, aralıklı. discontinuously  fasıla ile, aralıklı olarak.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "discontinuous":
     aimless, aloof, amorphous, apart, asunder, bipartite, broken,
     broken off, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, chopped-off,
     choppy, decousu, desultory, detached, deviative, dichotomous,
     disarticulated, disconnected, discontinued, discrete, disjointed,
     disjunct, disjunctive, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate,
     distinct, divergent, eccentric, episodic, erratic, fitful,
     flickering, fluctuating, formless, frivolous, gapped, gratuitous,
     guttering, halting, haphazard, herky-jerky, heteroclite,
     hit-or-miss, immethodical, in two, inchoate, incoherent,
     inconsistent, inconstant, indiscriminate, insular, intermittent,
     intermitting, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, lurching,
     meaningless, misshapen, muddled, nonadherent, nonadhesive,
     noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential,
     nonserial, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, open,
     orderless, parenthetic, partitioned, patchy, planless, promiscuous,
     rambling, random, rough, scrappy, senseless, separate, shapeless,
     snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty,
     staggering, straggling, straggly, suspended, systemless, tenuous,
     unadhesive, unarranged, unassociated, unattached, unattended,
     uncertain, unclassified, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected,
     undirected, unequal, uneven, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical,
     unmetrical, unordered, unorganized, unregular, unrhythmical,
     unsettled, unsorted, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsymmetrical,
     unsystematic, untenacious, ununiform, vague, variable, veering,
     wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 不连续的,中断的,间断的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 不连续的,中断的,间断的

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