Neri Oxman

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.

American Architect

Bill Clegg

Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.

American Author

Chen-Ning Yang

The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.

American Physicist

Johannes Stark

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.

Physicist

Sheila Heti

To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and complete thing, but also something that seeps out into their life and thoughts.

Canadian Writer

Alfred Kinsey

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.

American Scientist

Uzodinma Iweala

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Kara Swisher

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

American Journalist

Mary H.K. Choi

Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.

South Korean Author

John Shirley

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

Refers to things that are separate and not linked to others in a group or series.

Independent Entities

Used when highlighting distinct parts that make up a whole, for easier understanding and analysis.

Clarity in Analysis

Suggests an action or presence that is intentionally understated to avoid drawing notice.

Avoiding Attention

Describes minor but important differences that may not be immediately obvious.

Subtle Differences

In math, indicates items that are not connected in an unbroken sequence.

Non-Continuous

Used in mathematics to describe things that are clearly separate and not overlapping in value.

Distinct in Nature

Means that variables or quantities can only take specific, separate values, not ranges.

Precise Values

 said Marder. 'Okay. Small. Fire on ice. Tell them not to kill me. Tell them not to kill me. What have I done wrong? Hundreds of thousands with thoughts, interdiction.' 'Elyn, do you feel like you're dangerous to yourself or others? I think you need to be in the hospital. I could get you admitted right away, and the whole thing could be very discrete.'

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 in violence against other criminal organizations, they recruit gangs and other smaller players to do the dirty work for them, and they try to separate their operations and their violence and be very discrete about this. To further strengthen their brand, they actually have professional P.R. firms

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 our sensory experience of the world would be an undifferentiated mass rather than the discrete objects we actually apprehend. For science, the task is to find where this network lies, how it is formed, and how it interacts with external stimuli. For philosophy, the challenge is to rethink

Ideasthesia: How do...

 Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions. But you don't find homogenous material assemblies in nature.

Design at the...

 you're actually using a form of telemetry not so different from the remote control device for your television. It's just that, whereas that device relies on pulses of infrared light, your language relies on pulses, discrete pulses, of sound.

Mark Pagel: How language...

 which proposed the brain’s tissue was made up of many discrete cells, instead of one connected tissue. The neuron doctrine laid the foundation for modern neuroscience, and allowed later researchers to discover that electrical impulses

Uncovering the brain's...

 you know discrete locations but our map is continuous we can see the ups and downs the the ridges the ledges of the sea bottom and all of that is important information for our manager as well as to make the linkages between the

Scientists "See" Ocean...

 Identity politics can be narcissistic. People extol a difference only because it's theirs. People narrow the world and function in discrete groups without empathy for one another. But properly understood and wisely practiced,

How the worst moments in...

 like the filament in a light bulb, but to do it, he needed a desperate he said the object was made up of oscillators that could only emit light in discrete chunks, units of energy that depend on the frequency of the light.

Particles and waves: The...

 video camera with individual discrete pictures helped excuse me having a brain injury sometimes causes memory issues here there we go

Discrete