discontinuities
- plural of discontinuity.
Example Sentences
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These kinds of major life events create discontinuities that scramble all kinds of personal habits—and not just those regarding transportation.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2024
Over time I became persuaded that Ella's parts were indeed “real” in the sense that her discontinuities in consciousness and awareness led her to experience aspects of herself as separate personalities.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
Russia in the 20th century experienced two discontinuities: the 1917 revolution that created the Soviet regime, and the 1991 dissolution of that regime and the nation it had held together with gulags and barbed wire.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
“Breathless” is an artistic hybrid that seemed to capture the discontinuities and conflicts of modern life, half in the artificial public world created by the media and half in the deepest recesses of consciousness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Cooling curves of the purest iron show at least two well-defined discontinuities at temperatures more than 1,000°F., below its freezing-point.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)
