discontinuous
adjEtymology
From dis- + continuous.
- borrowed from continuus
Definitions
having breaks or interruptions
having breaks or interruptions; intermittent
- The high capital costs of electrification are cited, with a suggestion that in challenging locations discontinuous electrification could be considered.
having at least one discontinuity
The neighborhood
- synonymbroken
- synonymfitful
- synonymragged
- synonymcatchy
- synonymdiscontinuous
- synonymintermissive
- synonymintermittent
- synonympatchy
- synonymspasmodic
- synonymstop-start
- antonymcontinuous
- neighbordiscontinuity
- neighborin fits and starts
- neighborirregular
- neighborunsteady
- neighboron-again
- neighboroff-again
- neighboron-off
- neighbortwinkling
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for discontinuous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA