Definition of Discrete

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Discrete

Separate; distinct; disjunct.

Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.

Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent.

To separate.

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Discrete Quotations

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
Oliver Stone

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
Johannes Stark

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.
Michael Behe

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.
Alfred Kinsey

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
George Oppen

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
John Shirley

Discrete Translations

discrete in Dutch is bescheiden, onopvallend, discreet
discrete in Finnish is tahdikas
discrete in German is separat, einzeln, einzeln, diskret
discrete in Italian is separato, separato, singolo
discrete in Portuguese is discreto
discrete in Spanish is separado, singular

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