Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.
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(Bot.) Separate; not coalescent; said of things usually coalescent.
Discrete movement. See Concrete movement of the voice, under Concrete, a.
Discrete proportion, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion; as, 3:6::12:24.
Discrete quantity, that which must be divided into units, as number, and is opposed to continued quantity, as duration, or extension.
... to give the clinical details of a case of smallpox; the eruption may be slight or it may be very extensive. It occurs in three forms, discrete, confluent and hemorrhagic. The most dangerous form of smallpox is the confluent, in which the face and arms particularly are covered with large pustular areas of a ... — Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
...discrete, Not reconciled,— Law for man, and law for thing; The last builds town and fleet, But it runs wild, And doth the ... — Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson
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