discrete

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Human knowledge is not a discrete entity like a file on a computer.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

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

Nothing about the natural world, at first glance, suggests the existence of a gene; indeed, you have to perform rather bizarre experimental contortions to uncover the idea of discrete particles of inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee