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

Like her blog, her book takes discrete pieces of information—biographical details, scientific trivia, “on this day” connections between disparate discoveries and figures—and elicits from them a narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 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 took up position in a discrete corner of the playground, which she calculated was the best place to observe the door without being seen.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu