discontinuity

The dividing line between the crust and the mantle is called the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or "the Moho."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026

Mr Wetmore says the industry has managed encryption transitions in the past, but “It's the sharper discontinuity that makes this threat more serious.”

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

Moments of discontinuity can also be triggered by external forces.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2024

It is unfortunate to see a discontinuity of those federal protections continue to emerge.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023

He had discovered the boundary between the crust and the layer immediately below, the mantle; this zone has been known ever since as the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho for short.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

Because its practitioners want to determine how and why contemporary phenomena came to be, they home in on the linkages, and discontinuities, between the distant past, the more recent past, and the present.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2022

What should most draw our attention are discontinuities.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai