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Discontinuity

noun

Lack of connection or continuity.

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Etymology of 'Discontinuity'

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Mohorovicic discontinuity

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"Discontinuity" Quotes from Famous Books

... changes give us no right to believe that there has been any discontinuity in natural processes. There is no trace of general cataclysms, of universal deluges, or sudden destructions of a whole fauna or flora. The appearances which were formerly interpreted in that way have all been ...

— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley

... that the wing of a bird "was developed in any other way than by a comparatively sudden modification of a marked and important kind;" and apparently he would extend the same view to the wings of bats and pterodactyles. This conclusion, which implies great breaks or discontinuity in the series, appears to me improbable ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... is the nature of life. Is it continuous, as it appears in vegetation and the animal kingdom, or is it discontinuous like the rocks on the mountainside or the grains of sand on the seashore? Those who live for the moment prefer discontinuity. Those who observe their natural environment are forced to the conclusion that life today is part of a sequence or progression which relates the life of yesterday to that ...

— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

Words linked to "Discontinuity" : discontinuous, continuity, Mohorovicic discontinuity, separation