Brian Eno

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

British Musician

David Bohm

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

American Scientist

Mark Vonnegut

Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

American Author

Imagine visual breaks or gaps in something typically connected or fluid to grasp 'discontinuous'.

Visualizing Gaps

'Discontinuous' stresses the presence of interruptions rather than their duration or frequency.

Context Nuance

In biology, 'discontinuous' can imply natural diversity or inconsistency in an organism's traits.

Biological Variation

Grasp 'discontinuous' as something that is spread out irregularly across different areas or groups.

Understanding Distribution

In math, 'discontinuous' often requires you to visualize jumps or breaks in a graph or curve.

Visualizing Math

Precision is crucial; 'discontinuous' means specific points disrupt the flow, not general unevenness.

Mathematical Precision

'Discontinuous' indicates occurrences at unpredictable or non-sequential times.

Sporadic Timing

Look for the absence of a regular pattern to identify something as 'discontinuous'.

Recognizing Patterns

 feet our artifacts are scattered across this area in what is known as a discontinuous archaeological site as each individual artifact is recovered its position on the site is accurately locked this enables Barrie to understand the layout of the widow wreck

Pirate Ship Wreck...

 of making that transition? I think some of the trends that are emerging coming out of this pandemic or coming into it and as we look forward is, clearly, this has been a discontinuous change in the trend line