anticontinuum

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ continuum

Noun

anticontinuum (plural anticontinuums or anticontinua)

1. Something that does not present as a continuum.
   • 2001, H. Pierre Noyes, J. C. van den Berg, Bit-string Physics: A Finite and Discrete Approach to Natural Philosophy, →ISBN, page 42:

     Note that the space we invoke was constructed from finite particle motions assumed to be specified to some approximate numerical accuracy; we do not have to assume that this accuracy of measurement can be increased indefinitely (in fact this is ruled out by our anticontinuum corrolary to the Democritean postulate).

   • 2007, J. Foertsch, Conflict and Counterpoint in Lesbian, Gay, and Feminist Studies, →ISBN:

     In light of all of this anticontinuum theorizing, was no part of Rich's model (and the relationship it hoped to enable) worth preserving because of the potential for homophobic mishandling found at its base?

   • 2016, S. P. Wallen, J. Lee, D. Mei, C. Chong, P. G. Kevrekidis, N. Boechler, “Discrete Breathers in a Mass-in-Mass Chain with Hertzian Local Resonators”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     After predicting theoretically the existence of the discrete breathers in the continuum and anticontinuum limits of intersite coupling, we use numerical continuation to compute a family of breathers interpolating between the two regimes in a finite chain, where the displacement profiles of the breathers are localized around one or two lattice sites.