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But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

T.N.T. in the past has also been made discontinuously thus: The toluene is nitrated by mixed acid into either mono- or dinitrotoluene, which is then trinitrated.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

But the movement is not perfectly fluid; for it is broken up into elementary pulses of ideas, following discontinuously upon each other.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

But these act discontinuously; and in the intervals the shallower levels of life tend to close in and shut us off.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

The copy of a genuine signature may be free-hand or composite, by which is meant that the writing is produced discontinuously or in parts.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell