Discrete Definition

dĭ-skrēt
adjective
Separate and distinct; not attached to others; unrelated.
Webster's New World
Made up of distinct parts; discontinuous.
Webster's New World
Defined for a finite or countable set of values; not continuous.
American Heritage
Designating or of an electronic circuit having separate transistors, resistors, etc.
Webster's New World

Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.

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Origin of Discrete

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin discrētus past participle of discernere to separate discern

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French discret, from Latin discretus, from past participle of discernere.

    From Wiktionary

Discrete Sentence Examples

  • I strolled a discrete distance from her side as we entered the gardens.

  • When we pass from the consideration of discrete particles to that of continuous distributions of matter, we require some physical postulate over and above what is contained in the Laws of Motion, in their original formulation.

  • It would seem that "the general theory of discrete and continuous quantity" is the exact description of the topics of these sciences.

  • They are not discrete entities which could do this.

  • The doctrine that matter can be divided into, or regarded as composed of, discrete particles (termed " atoms " by early writers, and " molecules " by modern ones) has at all times played an important part in metaphysics and natural science.

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