Discrete

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discrete \Dis*crete"\, a. [L. discretus, p. p. of discernere.
     See {Discreet}.]
     1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. --Sir M. Hale.
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     2. Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive


        clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a
        discrete proposition.
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     3. (Bot.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually
        coalescent.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discrete \Dis*crete"\, v. t.
     To separate. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discrete
       adj : constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with
             three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions"
             [syn: {distinct}]

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

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "discrete":
     alien, aloof, apart, assorted, asunder, at odds, at variance,
     bipartite, broadcast, broken, broken off, chopped-off, choppy,
     contrary, contrasted, contrasting, decousu, departing, detached,
     deviating, deviative, dichotomous, different, differentiated,
     differing, diffuse, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconnected,
     discontinued, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, discriminated,
     disjoined, disjunct, disjunctive, disparate, dispersed, dispread,
     disrelated, disseminated, dissimilar, dissipated, dissociated,
     dissonant, distinct, distinguished, distributed, divergent,
     diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, episodic, exotic,
     extraneous, fitful, foreign, gapped, herky-jerky, heterogeneous,
     in disagreement, in two, inaccordant, incoherent, incommensurable,
     incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant,
     independent, individual, inharmonious, insular, intermittent,
     interrupted, irreconcilable, irregular, irrelative, isolated,
     jagged, jerky, many, motley, multifarious, nonadherent,
     nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear,
     nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, open, other, outlandish,
     parenthetic, partitioned, patchy, poles apart, poles asunder,
     removed, scattered, scrappy, segregate, separate, separated,
     several, snatchy, sparse, spasmodic, sporadic, spotty, spread,
     straggling, straggly, strange, strewn, strown, suspended, tenuous,
     unadhesive, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unattached,
     unattended, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconformable, unconnected,
     unequal, unjoined, unlike, unrelatable, unrelated, unsuccessive,
     untenacious, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying,
     widely apart, widespread, worlds apart