discrete

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In his view, conventional medicine treats the body as discrete pieces, but it’s better to envision it as one system, where everything works in concert.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Moments of cognition aren’t discrete like electrical signals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

“DYNF does not depend on predicting or ‘timing’ discrete market turning points but instead tilts toward factors exhibiting tailwinds over a three-to-six-month horizon,” the firm wrote in an email in January.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Instead, it works as a multi-layered system where continuous processes influence discrete events, and discrete events reshape the continuous background, over and over, in an ongoing feedback loop.

From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025

She made him speak in lines that were difficult to sound-bite, discrete units of ideas, notions.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee