discrete
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See also: discrète
English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French discret, from Latin discrētus, past participle of discernō (“divide”), from dis- + cernō (“sift”). Doublet of discreet.
Adjective[edit]
discrete (comparative more discrete, superlative most discrete)
- Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.
- a government with three discrete divisions
- a. 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing”, in Poems, 5th edition, Boston: Pillips, Sampson & Co., published 1856, page 120:
- There are two laws discrete, / Not reconciled,— / Law for man, and law for thing; / The last builds town and fleet, / But it runs wild, / And doth the man unking.
- 1875, George Henry Lewes, “The Problem Stated”, in Problems of Life and Mind, volume II, London: Trübner & Co., page 33:
- But analysis, penetrating beneath the fact of Sense in search of its ideal factors, declares that this mass of marble is something very different from what it appears : its seeming continuity is broken up into discrete molecules, separated from each other as the stars in the Milky Way are separated ; and its seeming homogeneity is resolved into heterogeneous substances, which are themselves in all probability composite.
- 2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, pages 254–255:
- It's not that there aren't measurable, quantifiable differences between all these categories we impose upon things, it's just that for the most part they fit not into discrete units, but into a continuum.
- That can be perceived individually, not as connected to, or part of, something else.
- (mathematics) Consisting of or permitting only distinct values drawn from a finite, countable set.
- a discrete sum
- (electrical engineering) Having separate electronic components, such as individual diodes, transistors and resistors, as opposed to integrated circuitry.
- (audio engineering) Having separate and independent channels of audio, as opposed to multiplexed stereo or quadraphonic, or other multi-channel sound.
- (topology) Having each singleton subset open: said of a topological space or a topology.
- Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause.
- "I resign my life, but not my honour" is a discrete proposition.
Usage notes[edit]
- Although cognate and identical in the Middle English period, the term has become distinct from discreet.
Antonyms[edit]
- continuous
- (electrical engineering): integrated
- (audio engineering): multiplexed
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
separate; distinct; individual
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Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
discrete (comparative discreter, superlative discretest)
- Obsolete form of discreet.
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
discrete
References[edit]
- ^ discreto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
discrēte
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
discrete
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