| discontinuous | | |
| adj. | 1. discontinuous | of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities. |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| adj. | 2. discontinuous, noncontinuous | not continuing without interruption in time or space.; "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling" |
| ~ broken | not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly.; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs" |
| ~ sporadic | recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances.; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" |
| ~ disrupted | marked by breaks or gaps.; "many routes are unsafe or disrupted" |
| ~ disjunct | used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations.; "disjunct distribution of king crabs" |
| noncontinuous | | |
| omit | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out | prevent from being included or considered or accepted.; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" |
| ~ do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish | terminate, end, or take out.; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" |
| ~ elide | leave or strike out.; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
| ~ forget | forget to do something.; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" |
| ~ pass over, skip, skip over, jump | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| skip over | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. jump, pass over, skip, skip over | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| ~ neglect, leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, overlook, miss, drop | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
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