discrete
adjective
apart or detached from others; separate; distinct.
discreteness
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a word derived from
discrete.
Example Sentences
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The brand, found mostly in Canada, also promises discreteness, and touts the sturdiness of its concealer’s heavy weight aluminum container.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2020
The Kenyan Review had printed a piece that referred to Faulkner's "images of linear discreteness," and "images of curve."
From Time Magazine Archive
The shift from the natural to the cultural-with its climax in literacy-was actually from immediacy, circularity, discreteness, and the physical realm to indirectness, sequentiality, linearity, and metaphysics.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
Out of no amount of discreteness can you manufacture the concrete.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
The discreteness is still more obvious when, instead of old things changing, they cease, or when altogether new things come.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
