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
His work built on an earlier proposal by Max Planck in 1900 that atoms emit and absorb energy in discrete packets rather than continuous amounts.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 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
Or was the information in germplasm discrete and carried in packets—like an unbroken, unbreakable message?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing discrete
Grade 12, List 1
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