| 单词 | discontinuous |
| 例句 | The reason I’ve never dreamed about him was that he belonged already to the world of dreams: discontinuous, irrational, obsessive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, describes a jerky and discontinuous universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The past has become discontinuous, like stones skipped across water, like postcards: I catch an image of myself, a dark blank, an image, a blank. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z More than any scientist before him, Bateson also grasped the idea that the discontinuous nature of genetic information carried vast implications for the future of human genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mendel had discovered the discontinuous nature of genes, Fisher knew, because he had chosen highly discrete traits and crossed pure-breeding plants to begin with. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the limitation of the sexual drive to a discontinuous time-segment, and the “equalizing” of it in androgyny, must prevent, to a large extent, both the exploitation and frustration of the drive. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Since the brief love story itself – the poor young couple had only a year in all – is discontinuous and ultimately non-climactic, a little more drama would have helped. Ghost Light 2010-06-18T23:05:00Z Peterson and Bunyan have actually been on the air longer; their partnership spans two discontinuous stretches at two stations over 27 years. Jim & Doreen: NBC4’s top-rated anchors are still leading the pack after 25 years In fact, I wanted to move with a disruptive flow characteristic of the types of experience which we can still have which are discontinuous, rhythmed according to different moments and impulses, urges. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z All six Mary Pages are excellent, handing off, as if in a relay race, the baton of the character’s discontinuous personality. Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Lives an Ordinary, Extraordinary Life 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The New York Times critic Roberta Smith wrote in a review of a 2003 gallery show that his “contorted, discontinuous forms have an outrageous, ebullient, disorienting energy, like art in drag.” The Artist John Newman Says a Fake Check Scam Cost Him $12,000 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z But in its clamorous storytelling, the big-screen version of "PoP" peddles to children yet another vision of the world as a deafening, discontinuous hell, punctuated by vanity close-ups and homicidal small talk. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z The London-born painter Cecily Brown is known for stormy, intensely colored canvases, usually abstract, which depend for their effect not on any overall argument or scheme but on a sheer profusion of rapid, discontinuous strokes. Cecily Brown’s Repeated Images Tell a Story About Drawing 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And like all the best futurology it succeeds by pinpointing those discontinuous advances in technology that – while still only emergent – will come to dominate the societies to come. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z For Macfarlane also finds that "down in the dusk" of a holloway, "the landscape's past felt excitingly alive and coexistent, as if history had pleated back on itself, bringing discontinuous moments into contact". Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards – review 2013-07-19T07:00:01Z But the experience of Kusama is discontinuous, fractured, full of stops and delays and rushed encounters. Perspective | I went to Kusama and all I got was this lousy selfie 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z An assembly of discontinuous moments, the film builds up to an ethnographic and ecological sketch of Hawaii. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The song may be discontinuous, but wanderlust has long been a standby of Riley's work. The Glacial Stairway by Peter Riley ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:11Z Proust’s epic now feels to me sort of twee and also not discontinuous enough. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The other, the “burst” style, favors innovation, flat knowledge networks and discontinuous productivity. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z But now – in the discontinuous world of modernity, where relationships are casual and work comes and goes – such belonging feels strange and even sinister. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z She said she wanted to "replicate the experience" of London through its often discontinuous and stylistically diverse prose. Zadie Smith returns to her native London for her fourth novel 2012-08-26T15:13:10Z These strategies enabled the production of dense and continuous Te thin films compared to conventional methods that often resulted in porous or discontinuous grain depositions. Atomic layer deposition route to scalable, electronic-grade van der Waals Te thin films 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Mendel worked instead with traits that show discontinuous variation. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Over the last few centuries, scientists reported that these "mats" have been "limited" and "discontinuous." How the media got a story about a killer seaweed "blob" all wrong 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z DNA replication is bidirectional and discontinuous; explain your understanding of those concepts. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z A stepwise function, such as parking-garage charges as a function of hours parked, is an example of a discontinuous function. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z Find all values for which the function is discontinuous. Calculus, Volume 1 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z As cooling continues, the various reactions on the discontinuous branch will proceed because silica is abundant, the plagioclase will become increasingly sodium-rich, and eventually potassium feldspar and quartz will form. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z If that did not happen, he said the union was likely to ballot its members for a withdrawal of all overtime working and a series of discontinuous 24-hour stoppages. ScotRail: Union says train drivers close to agreeing pay deal 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z This results in pieces of DNA being replicated in a discontinuous fashion. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z TRY IT #4 Determine where the function is discontinuous. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z Wall Street bank Goldman told clients it was reviewing investment recommendations and predicted a “discontinuous” drop in the lira, and a “front-loaded” rate-cutting cycle. Turkish lira languishes near record low after central bank chief sacking 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Due to the explosive content inside, the facility cannot be built anywhere else on base except the isolated hill of discontinuous permafrost where it now sits, he said. Global warming is having a costly, and dangerous, impact on key military bases in Alaska 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z Fabrics are pinned to the cardboard, heaped atop and wrapped around the structures, not in the literal manner of clothing but as a discontinuous kind of adornment or signifier of identity. Review: With paint and antique textiles, artist Marley Freeman weaves intimate mysteries 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z This results in pieces of DNA being replicated in a discontinuous fashion. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z If it is discontinuous, state where it is discontinuous. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z In a succession of short, discontinuous scenes, family members and home aides merge and diverge, leaving not just the afflicted title character but theatergoers in a state of alarm over the apparent collapse of reality. Review: Alfred Molina, like Lear with dementia, thunders in 'The Father' at Pasadena Playhouse 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z All are located in the warming south-central swath of Alaska where patchwork or “discontinuous” permafrost exists and is prone to melting. Global warming is having a costly, and dangerous, impact on key military bases in Alaska 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z Under the policy, shared leave can be discontinuous, so we decided to split up the final three months of leave. Shared parental leave: making it work for the whole family 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z This results in pieces of DNA being replicated in a discontinuous fashion. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z A function that has any hole or break in its graph is known as a discontinuous function. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z Another even more exotic function, discontinuous at every point, is the Conway base 13 function. The Couple That Studies the Intermediate Value Theorem Together Stays Together 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z “The most surprising and novel finding of this study is that many discontinuous dream images are paradoxically coherent,” the authors wrote. Opinion | Why Do You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants? It’s Science 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Researcher recreated the image using ochre crayons and ochre paint and found that the discontinuous nature of the drawing more closely matched crayon use. 73,000-Year-Old Hashtag Is Oldest Example of Abstract Art 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Explain why half of DNA is replicated in a discontinuous fashion. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z For the following exercises, determine why the function is discontinuous at a given point on the graph. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z To great effect, Smith achieves a formally unified literary novel while simultaneously illustrating a unnamed narrator recognizing her discontinuous selves. Zadie Smith's brilliance is on display in 'Feel Free' 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z He became fascinated with the challenge of rendering the continuous currents of the atmosphere in the discontinuous, 0-or-1 world of computer code. Take that, Europe. Computer modeler aims to give U.S. lead in weather predictions 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Dr. Schuur said that as the planet warms, more southerly regions, where the permafrost occurs in discontinuous patches, would be expected to thaw first. More Permafrost Than Thought May Be Lost as Planet Warms 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z This results in pieces of DNA being replicated in a discontinuous fashion. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Determine the value of at which the function is discontinuous, and explain the pitfall of utilizing technology when considering continuity of a function by examining its graph. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z At first, these countries were scattered archipelagoes of discontinuous territory, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, joined in nationhood with Lahore and its surrounding districts. Mohsin Hamid on the dangers of nostalgia: we need to imagine a brighter future 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z It is always uneven, discontinuous, reversible, contradictory, producing winners and losers, no force of nature but manmade.” Angela Merkel and the history book that helped inform her worldview 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Their neural-translation project, he continued, represented a “step function forward” — that is, a discontinuous advance, a vertical leap rather than a smooth curve. The Great A.I. Awakening 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z So Garner’s reminiscence breaks into short, discontinuous sections, as she appraises, from different angles, the unassertive enigma that was her mother. Helen Garner’s Savage Self-Scrutiny 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Determine the numbers for which a function is discontinuous. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z Without question much of the Trump side of the debate was a discontinuous morass. The Trump Mosh Pit 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Their quick cuts, discontinuous camera movements, and compression were perfectly pitched to the short attention spans of the social media era. The rise of Tomi Lahren, the media star lampooned as 'white power Barbie' 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z “The discontinuous line,” says Wang, “means the national border on the sea.” Just Where Exactly Did China Get It's Nine-Dash Line From? 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z In another way, it is increasingly possible to imagine oneself as being discontinuous with one’s skin. What the Science of Touch Says About Us 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Volunteer projects may be choppy and discontinuous, one set of volunteers not knowing what the previous group was up to, and not able to leave suggestions for the next group. Book Review: ‘Hoping to Help’ Questions Value of Volunteers 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z A wholeness with holes; places where memory ruptured and ran discontinuous. Copyfactory : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z What he’s trying to achieve, he says, is “massive, outsize, discontinuous impact.” LinkedIn’s Plan for World Domination 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The maturation of the IT Revolution is best measured by the radical, discontinuous decline in the cost of digitizing hitherto physical processes into computer algorithms. From Atoms to Bits To Atoms: Friction On The Path To The Digital Future 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Some of the new speedy traders might be exacerbating gaps in market depth by pulling away from the market quickly, leading to discontinuous pricing in Treasurys and higher volatility in yields. Concerns About Trading of U.S. Treasurys Prompts Review by Regulators 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z One of the reasons is that pre-1950s data from the Pacific is sketchy and discontinuous. Pacific Current Change Slowed Global Warming 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Classical physicists believed the discontinuous quantum was a mere computational trick, but rather than fade away as expected, the mysterious energy packets started popping up in more and more places. ‘The Quantum Moment’ Recounts the End of Determinism 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z While difference in content places Sirius XM in an advantageous position, it also indicates that the satellite radio provider and music streaming players are serving partially discontinuous markets. Sirius XM: Its Free Music Counterparts Less Of A Threat 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z But considering an island on the other side of the world — Britain — with its discontinuous record of human settlement over 900,000 years, I can also imagine episodic human colonizations on Flores. Human evolution: Small remains still pose big problems 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z "We balloted for discontinuous action with no end date," she said. Public sector workers in mass strike 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Women represent 85 percent of the sector’s employees, who work on contracts defined by Spanish labor law as “fixed discontinuous” — in other words, a steady job but only for a limited period each year. Sweets Made Only for Christmas Are Spanish Town’s Gift to Itself 2013-12-24T01:06:29Z The shift is fundamental and abrupt and discontinuous. The Meaning Of Management: The Great Awakening 2013-09-16T12:46:00Z This pattern—referred to as “sculling”—though creepy and extra artificial looking, produces a fluid and steady motion that is very much unlike the discontinuous movement of the real octopus. Robot Octopus Swims With Lifelike Arms [Video] 2013-08-01T13:45:05.190Z But there are some advantages to this discontinuous system. 3-D Printed Jets Mimic Octopus Propulsion 2013-07-23T17:15:02.217Z "With these repetitive, discontinuous, short, one-to-three minute answers, the people are being harmed and the eight people up here are being insulted." Iran presidential debate on economy dissolves into chaos 2013-05-31T19:49:43Z “They chose a model in which all psychiatric illnesses were represented as categories discontinuous with ‘normal.’ Psychiatry’s New Guide Falls Short, Experts Say 2013-05-07T01:09:45Z The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday notified its employees that they will be furloughed for 11 discontinuous days beginning the week of April 7. Budget pain reaches the federal workers who crunch the numbers 2013-03-08T02:03:27Z Federico Fossi, a spokesman for the United Nations commissioner for refugees in Italy, called the assistance services for migrants arriving in Italian ports on the Adriatic Sea “discontinuous and inadequate.” Italy Said to Turn Back Asylum Seekers From Greece 2013-01-22T01:03:09Z These do so by adding rare, but large, discontinuous jumps in the price of assets. How to lose 3 million dollars in one second? 2013-01-14T15:15:00.340Z Collectively, these findings indicate that the distribution of grid spacing is discontinuous and that discontinuity is not caused by uneven cell sampling. The entorhinal grid map is discretized 2012-12-11T21:22:10.423Z If the permafrost is patchy — “discontinuous,” in geological parlance — even identifying areas of melt risk is tricky. With Warming, Peril Underlies Road to Alaska 2012-07-23T19:54:53Z A 7 Å resolution cryoelectron microscopy map of Fab fragments of HM14c10 in a complex with DENV1 shows targeting of a discontinuous epitope that spans the adjacent surface of envelope protein dimers. [Research Articles] The Structural Basis for Serotype-Specific Neutralization of Dengue Virus by a Human Antibody 2012-06-20T18:55:24.963Z Its hallmarks include discontinuous chronology, in which fragments of narrative glint like shards of memory; the mutable identities of people and places; and the eminently reasonable presence of ghosts. Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68 2012-04-05T01:55:33Z As consciousness presents them, they are often discontinuous, and abrupt: and they do not always carry with them their own explanation. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z There are certain discontinuous variations, however—sports, as they are called—in plants which differ very markedly in some quality from others, and these have the tendency to perpetuate themselves. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Although there is truth in Lamarck's dictum that "Nature is never brusque," although Jack-in-the-box phenomena are rare, the evidence, e.g. of Bateson and De Vries, as to the frequent occurrence of discontinuous variations appears conclusive. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z The cost to an employer of converting an expiring temporary contract into a permanent one is quite high because of a discontinuous jump in the cost of sacking the worker. Building competitiveness: Insider aiding 2012-02-23T17:07:45Z "Tribal" chiefs did exist in Idaho and Wyoming, but they exercised discontinuous influence on a group of followers, who might only infrequently all gather as a unit. Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society 2012-02-17T03:00:38.253Z They represent, one may say, the first stage of a process which, although often inconspicuous, is not likely to be discontinuous,—the sustenance, namely, of the supraliminal life by impulse or guidance from below. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Consequently, its distribution in the isthmus is discontinuous. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z Another large class of discontinuous groups, which have far-reaching applications in analysis, are those which arise in the first instance from purely geometrical considerations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The result is that by the indication of arbitrarily chosen points upon the continuous distance, we place upon it an artificial discontinuity which enables us to associate it with the discontinuous number series. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z There is then no sign of mind anywhere except in that infinitesimally thin and indeed discontinuous skin which is made up of living individuals on the earth’s surface. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z The stripe on the 1st row is most variable; usually it consists of only a discontinuous series of dashes for most of its length. A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) 2011-09-25T02:00:14.967Z Rana palmipes is another species that has a discontinuous distribution in the isthmus. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z By the combination and repetition of a finite number of geometrical Discontinuous groups arising from geometrical operations. operations such as displacements, projective transformations, inversions, &c., a discontinuous group of such operations will arise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Khosla believes there are many examples of black swan events, especially in energy, which is why he just finished writing a paper on discontinuous innovation called, “The Black Swan Thesis of Energy Transformation.” Vinod Khosla: The 'Fail' Strategy 2011-09-21T15:57:56Z This step is important as bringing into line discontinuous number and continuous magnitude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Every stripe originates either as broad continuous stripe or as a row of spots or dashes, forming a discontinuous stripe, which in some specimens becomes continuous posteriorly. A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) 2011-09-25T02:00:14.967Z For example, he has shown that Riemann’s totally discontinuous function, which is equal to 1 when x is rational and to 0 when x is irrational, can be represented by an analytical expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z We go on now to the consideration of discontinuous groups. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z If the leaders are clear-sighted, the party will be continuous, large, long-lived; dim-sighted enthusiasts, even when for the moment successful, lead a discontinuous, short-lived, spasmodic crowd. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z We therefore find that some genera and even species are practically cosmopolitan in their range, while others, so far as our knowledge goes, appear to have an extraordinarily discontinuous distribution. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z The mechanical department gave them pleasure, the intellectual charmed them; and so strong was their susceptibility, that even a discontinuous rehearsal afforded them a species of illusion. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Where these hooklets are wanting the barbs do not adhere together, resulting in a loose “discontinuous” vane such as, for example, is found in the plumes of the ostrich. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Many large classes of discontinuous groups have formed the subject of detailed investigation, but a general formal theory of discontinuous groups can hardly be said to exist as yet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z In a general way the same depression may be said to extend northward to southeastern Alaska, but is there deeply water-filled, and its western border is discontinuous and broken into many islands. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z China's story over the last century-plus already represents one of the great discontinuous bursts of energy of our modern moment. Why China may not be No. 1 2011-05-02T20:30:00Z These mathematicians were hampered by the narrow conception of a function, in which it is regarded as necessarily continuous; a discontinuous function was considered only as a succession of several different functions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z This is a process of mentally breaking up continuous quantity or magnitude—whether permanent or successive, i.e. whether extension or motion—into discontinuous quantity or multitude. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Conversely, when such a set of operations and system of relations are given arbitrarily they define in abstract form a single discontinuous group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z It was not discontinuous, that is, but everywhere. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z But so much on our present planet suggests that we're not in a world of steady, evolutionary development but of "punctuated equilibrium" of sudden leaps and discontinuous change. Why China may not be No. 1 2011-05-02T20:30:00Z They are, in mathematical phrase, "infinitesimals of the second order," discontinuous with the interests of magnitude great enough to attract the attention of the law. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Of course, as flying birds can pass easily from one region to another, "discontinuous distribution," as applied to them, cannot have so much importance attached to it as indicating previous land connexions. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z In the contrary case the group is called properly discontinuous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z They found that when the insects’ brains were removed, they displayed discontinuous breathing patterns. Observatory: Big Brains Steal Insects? Breath Away 2010-12-14T17:25:46Z Baily's Beads, a phenomenon attending eclipses of the sun, the unobscured edge of which appears discontinuous and broken immediately before and after the moment of complete obscuration. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Pal�ontology, indeed, is clearly in favour of the theory of discontinuous mutation, or advance by sudden changes, which has lately received so much support from the botanical experiments of H. de Vries. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer As no Bustard occurs in the regions between Australia and India, this bird supplies a good example of what is known to zoo-geographers as "discontinuous distribution." An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z Among the discontinuous groups that occur in analysis, a large number may be regarded as arising by imposing limitations on the range of variation of the parameters of continuous groups. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The behavior, known as discontinuous gas exchange, is seen only in certain insects, and only when they are in a resting state. Observatory: Big Brains Steal Insects? Breath Away 2010-12-14T17:25:46Z The question seems unmeaning, for the levels of value referred to are different and discontinuous and the magnitudes belong to different orders. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude According to the most recent published account, therefore, B. b. hulophaga would seem to have a peculiarly discontinuous geographic range. Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Marsupials, Insectivores and Carnivores Thickets of shrubs and saplings sprang up throughout the woodland, forming a dense understory layer beneath the discontinuous canopy of the relatively scattered mature trees. Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana A most important class of discontinuous groups are those that arise in this way from the general linear continuous group in a given set of variables. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The distribution of this species, therefore, is discontinuous. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México If we compute, for all these different varieties of elements, the place of the planet for 1847, its locus will evidently be a discontinuous curve or curvilinear polygon. Astronomical Discovery Almost all species of Alpine plants, in fact, are examples of discontinuous distribution; and this, as every naturalist knows, is always, in both animals and plants, a proof of antiquity. The History of the European Fauna Since hand regulation is necessarily discontinuous, the speed and the temperature were constantly varying, so that it was useless to take readings nearer than the tenth of a degree. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The special classes of discontinuous groups that have been dealt with Group of a linear differential equation. in the previous paragraphs arise directly from geometrical considerations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z This was based on the assumption that the medium in which the light is propagated is discontinuous and molecular in character, the molecules being subject to a mutual attraction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" If they are not capable of mixing in all proportions a discontinuous change must occur somewhere between the regions where the substances are still unmixed, thus giving rise to a surface of separation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" We have indeed quite similar examples in the Oriental migration, of which part is very ancient, surviving here and there and exhibiting discontinuous distribution. The History of the European Fauna It does not, of course, follow that a discord is discontinuous. A Novelist on Novels The consideration of a discontinuous group as arising from a set of independent generating operations suggests a purely abstract point of view in which any two simply isomorphic groups are indistinguishable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z ‘Change’ in this case means continuous as opposed to discontinuous transition. Essays in Radical Empiricism On the basis of the discontinuous variation in several characters which correlate with the disjunct distribution of the two populations, two subspecies of Hyla staufferi are recognized. The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America Many other examples might be mentioned to show that, though discontinuous range is generally a proof of antiquity, continuous range is not always a sign of the opposite. The History of the European Fauna The discontinuous machines or intermittently operated pasteurizers are those in which the milk is heated for any desired time at any temperature. Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying The range within which the variables are allowed to vary may clearly affect the question whether a given group is properly or improperly discontinuous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Against this rationalistic tendency to treat experience as chopped up into discontinuous static objects, radical empiricism protests. Essays in Radical Empiricism Its woods usually have discontinuous canopies and allow dense maquis and other lower shrubs to flourish beneath them. Area Handbook for Albania Its discontinuous range and its isolated position in the Alps, Pyrenees, and the Japanese mountains, all tend to show that it is an ancient species. The History of the European Fauna The preceding measurements refer to mean potentials, and no conclusions as to the actual potential differences at any time can be drawn when the discharge is discontinuous, unless we know the law of discontinuity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 8 "Conduction, Electric" It has been already seen, in the discussion of discontinuous groups in general, that the groups of such equations must be groups of finite order. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Now it all depends upon these forms being classed as sub-species or as true species whether this is or is not a case of discontinuous specific distribution. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras In mathematics and music, the adjective has been used as synonymous with “continuous” as opposed to “discrete,” i.e. “separate,” “discontinuous.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" M. campestris—the Yellow Wagtail—has a most peculiar discontinuous range. The History of the European Fauna Outer Maxill�, considerably concave in front, with the spines almost discontinuous in the middle part. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. If no one of these parameters is capable of continuous variation, the group is called a discontinuous group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z If, however, these two forms are reckoned as sub-species only, then the area of the species becomes continuous, while only one of its varieties or sub-species has a discontinuous area. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras "The modern tendency is to emphasise the discontinuous or atomic character of everything." God and the World A Survey of Thought It stands isolated, and is an extraordinary instance of discontinuous distribution, as no Bullfinch inhabits either Madeira or the Canary Islands. The History of the European Fauna In more recent times another idea has become current, mainly due to the work of Bateson and of de Vries—the idea that variations are discontinuous. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution Such groups have already been referred to in connexion with discontinuous groups. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z General features of Overlapping and Discontinuous Areas.—These numerous examples of discontinuous genera and families form an important section of the facts of animal dispersal which any true theory must satisfactorily account for. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Its leadership up to the present time has been of the sporadic and discontinuous sort. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology Both of these are instances of discontinuous distribution, a proof of their antiquity; but a large number of plants have a continuous range between Asia Minor and Spain. The History of the European Fauna Suppose that evolution "in the open" had taken place in the same way, by means of discontinuous variation. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution A boy far more than a man is mentally a discontinuous being. The Passionate Friends Two other families of mammalia, though confined to the Eastern hemisphere, are yet markedly discontinuous. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Helmholtz’s theory of musical harmony depends on the experimental fact that a continued impression gives a pleasant, a discontinuous an unpleasant sensation. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion The antiquity of the Lusitanian element in our fauna is especially indicated by the frequent recurrence of "discontinuous distribution" among the species belonging to that section. The History of the European Fauna We thus see the truth of Haeckel's definition that "reproduction is a nutrition and growth of the organism beyond its individual mass," or in biological formula, "a discontinuous growth." The Truth About Woman They were discontinuous lumps of flesh sharing a common vocabulary, yet not even truly discontinuous. Warm They thus afford examples of discontinuous specific distribution exactly parallel to that of the great spotted kingfisher, already referred to as found only in the Himalayas and Japan. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras And their presence in London was so discontinuous that their translating work was much more marked by interruption than continuity. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work We have here some very remarkable cases of discontinuous distribution which testify to the antiquity of the genus, and this is certainly confirmed by the fossil evidence. The History of the European Fauna But the benefit is spasmodic, discontinuous, and extremely limited. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland It is not continuous but discontinuous, because it is based upon the presence or absence of some definite factor or factors—upon discontinuity in the gametes from which it sprang. Mendelism Third Edition The voids in fine-grained shales may equal in volume those in sandstones and limestones, but the openings are so small and discontinuous that the water does not flow freely. The Economic Aspect of Geology Sterilise these coupled flasks by the discontinuous method, in the usual manner. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. One only, H. thoracicus—an instance of discontinuous distribution—occurs in Andalusia. The History of the European Fauna And so he cannot understand when even simple ideas are given in complex and discontinuous form. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds But these colour patches, and the sensations they afford us, are just as often, discontinuous in the highest degree; and the lines constituting a shape may, as for instance in constellations, be entirely imaginary. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics In shales and clays, which are commonly the impervious "cap-rocks," porosity may be equally high, but the pores are too small and discontinuous to permit movement. The Economic Aspect of Geology In this case it is diluted with an equal quantity of distilled water, steamed for an hour, filtered, filled into sterile flasks or tubes, and sterilised by the discontinuous method. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. The two living species show discontinuous distribution, and are almost confined to Europe. The History of the European Fauna Arbitrary, foreign, jolting, discontinuous—are the adjectives by which we are tempted to describe it. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The arithmetician, the algebraist, and more generally the analyst, in whom invention obtains in the most abstract form of discontinuous functions—symbols and their relations—cannot imagine like the geometrician. Essay on the Creative Imagination The mineral matter may be continuous or discontinuous. The Economic Aspect of Geology Sterilise in the steamer at 100° C. for twenty minutes on each of three consecutive days—i. e., by the discontinuous method. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. One species, which I have had several occasions to refer to in illustration of the term "discontinuous distribution," ranges far beyond the confines of that country. The History of the European Fauna The world of qualities is a world of things almost wholly discontinuous inter se. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Animals, by action that is discontinuous, concentrated in certain moments, and conscious, go to find these bodies in organisms that have already fixed them. Creative Evolution Areas of the Transition and Canadian life-zones are present on some of the higher mountains; their discontinuity results in a discontinuous distribution of the conifer-dependent avifauna. Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Sterilise in the steamer at 100° C. for thirty minutes on each of three consecutive days—i. e., by the discontinuous method. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. That the Lusitanian fauna is very ancient in the British Islands is proved by the fact of the discontinuous distribution of so many species. The History of the European Fauna These experiences have three characters in common: They are capricious, discontinuous, and not easily controlled; they require peculiar persons for their production; their significance seems to be wholly for personal life. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Now, to modify an object, we have to perceive it as divisible and discontinuous. Creative Evolution The fundamental argument for its existence was the immediate appeal to self-consciousness; and it was further defined as indestructible on the ground of its being utterly discontinuous and incommensurable with its material environment. The Approach to Philosophy The method of sterilising by exposure to streaming steam at 100° C. for twenty minutes on each of three consecutive days is termed discontinuous or intermittent sterilisation. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. A quarter of a century ago Pasteur proved the cause of 'so-called spontaneous generation' to be discontinuous. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The opposite of a continuous universe would be a discontinuous universe, an incoherent and irrelevant universe—as irrelevant in all its ways of doing things as an irrelevant person. Natural Law in the Spiritual World While the animal evolved, not without accidents along the way, toward a freer and freer expenditure of discontinuous energy, the plant perfected rather its system of accumulation without moving. Creative Evolution She had received her education—even if it were somewhat desultory and discontinuous—at good schools. The Nebuly Coat As one contemplates a line of development like this, he must be aware that, while change is there, it is not aimless, discontinuous, chaotic change. Christianity and Progress The continuous motion of an angel is necessary through every medium, but may be discontinuous without a medium. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 In prose they are discontinuous, irregularly alternating, often hardly perceptible; but they are there as potential forces whose latent effects are brought out by regular metre. The Principles of English Versification Of the discontinuous alone does the intellect form a clear idea. Creative Evolution A sort of aurora borealis of wit streams and rustles across the dusky surface, amusing to the reader, but discontinuous, and insufficient to illuminate the matter in hand. The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse The movement is not haphazard and discontinuous change, like disparate particles in a kaleidoscope falling together in new but vitally unrelated ways. Christianity and Progress His motion may be continuous and discontinuous as he will. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 This objection will be made: that in the hypothesis of a discontinuous existence of things, reason may continue to do its work, provided the intervention of a possible perception be supposed. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Intuition is there, however, but vague and above all discontinuous. Creative Evolution But these act discontinuously; and in the intervals the shallower levels of life tend to close in and shut us off. Memories and Studies Careful observation of animal tissues discovered in some cases the existence of discontinuous units of structure, but these were not, as a rule, recognised before 1838 as analogous to plant cells. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology One of the traits that every critic notes in Emerson's writing, is that it is so abrupt, so sudden in its transitions, so discontinuous, so inconsecutive. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson In the simplest case the main girders are supported at the ends only, and if there are several spans they are discontinuous or independent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Therefore, here again, our perception manages to solidify into discontinuous images the fluid continuity of the real. Creative Evolution Meanwhile, descending to detail, one cannot help admiring the great originality with which Myers wove such an extraordinarily detached and discontinuous series of phenomena together. Memories and Studies On the N.W. it is comparatively low, and in places discontinuous; and even to a greater extent than on the S.W., intersected by passes. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features How may the necessarily discontinuous discussions of the class—one period each day for several days—be so counteracted as to insure the cumulative emotional effect which the appreciation of all art presupposes? Craftsmanship in Teaching Modifications of the system have been adopted for bridges with discontinuous spans. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Action is discontinuous, like every pulsation of life; discontinuous, therefore, is knowledge. Creative Evolution It is probable that normal silver, precipitated in fine powder and set aside moist to dry gradually, may cohere into brittle lumps, but these would be mere aggregations of discontinuous material. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 The border, especially on the W., is very complex, and is discontinuous on the S., where it is intersected by more than one pass, and is prolonged far beyond the apparent limits of the formation. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features Its area was discontinuous, and its inland boundaries towards the back country were vaguely defined. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain One of the traits that every critic notes in Emerson's writing is that it is so abrupt, so sudden in its transitions, so discontinuous, so inconsecutive. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson It secures that the chemical activity of the organism can be propagated in a medium in which the supply of energy is discontinuous or localised. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays First, human and animal psychology thereby become less discontinuous. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals It is surprising, then, that a continuous retinal process is subjectively interpreted as two quite different objects, that is, as something discontinuous. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. I think I have demolished "discontinuous variation" as having any but the most subordinate part in evolution of species. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 These forces are not discontinuous, connected with this temporary world, and liable to cease when it fails. Among the Forces From and after the conclusion of peace and alliance between Ramesses and Khitasir, Egyptian influence in Asia grew vague, shadowy, and discontinuous. Ancient Egypt This region of discontinuous flame below the corona is called the chromosphere. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Such an interpretation is all the more to be expected, since, as the strobic phenomena show, even discontinuous retinal processes tend to be interpreted as continuously existing objects. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. I cannot remember having seen any answer; only criticisms of a discontinuous sort. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 The religious and political allegory is here vague and somewhat discontinuous. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I This seems crude when stated with archaic frankness but becomes plausible if paraphrased in modern language as "discontinuous variation and the spontaneous origin of definite species." Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The Luminiferous Ether: First idea of Ether due to Descartes—Ether must be imponderable—Fresnel shows light vibrations to be transverse—Transverse vibrations cannot exist in fluid—Ether must be discontinuous. The New Physics and Its Evolution Though normal growth is slow and continuous, modern science tends to lay increasing stress upon discontinuous and sudden larger variations in the production of organic changes. The Unity of Civilization The next letter relates to the rising school of biologists who, in opposition to Darwin's views, held that species might arise by what was at the time termed "discontinuous variation." Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 Organically reproduction is also a function of nutrition, and, as Spencer pointed out, is to be regarded as discontinuous growth. Sex and Society In consequence of the rotation of the earth, the image describes an arc of a circle on the paper, and when the sun is obscured, this arc is necessarily discontinuous. Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 The copy of a genuine signature may be free-hand or composite, by which is meant that the writing is produced discontinuously or in parts. Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds Probably it was in the comparatively well-watered and well-wooded margin of one of the large grasslands; but whether north or south of the Mountain Zone, or round the discontinuous plateaux within it, is not clear. The Unity of Civilization Return to Table of Contents A theory involving some sort of a discrete or discontinuous structure of energy has been put forward by Prof. Max Planck of the University of Berlin. A Librarian's Open Shelf Beyond these fluctuating variations come the unit characters or factors, which are distinct from each other, or "discontinuous," to use the technical term, and which therefore cannot be plotted on a frequency curve. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation The work as a whole has form, is shapely, even dramatic; but it is discontinuous and episodic in its conduct, and is most memorable in its separate parts. The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) But are our concepts static, fixed, and discontinuous? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Is it continuous, as it appears in vegetation and the animal kingdom, or is it discontinuous like the rocks on the mountainside or the grains of sand on the seashore? Civilization and Beyond Learning from History A paper in which a discontinuous or “atomic” structure of energy was suggested was prepared by the present writer fifteen years ago but remains unpublished for reasons that will appear later. A Librarian's Open Shelf She could not suspect their existence, for they are discontinuous with the 'natural' experiences they succeed upon and invert their values. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The unstable and fluctuating conferences of the Allies to-day, their repeated experiences of the disadvantages of evanescent and discontinuous co-ordinations, may press them almost unconsciously toward this building up of things greater than they know. What is Coming? The essence of life is its continuously changing character; but our concepts are all discontinuous and fixed … When we conceptualize we cut out and fix, and exclude everything but what we have fixed. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes From his complex and unproductive endeavors to derive the appearance of continuity from discontinuous reality we hurry on to the fourth, the psychological problem, which Herbart discusses with great acuteness. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The general effect on our physical conceptions, however, is the same: we have a purely discontinuous universe—discontinuous not only in matter but in energy and the flow of time. A Librarian's Open Shelf Its diverse appearances break it into a plurality; and our world of objects then falls into discontinuous pieces quite as much as did our world of subjects. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It is equally fatal to an aim to permit capricious or discontinuous action in the name of spontaneous self-expression. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education How to regard them is the question—for they are so discontinuous with ordinary consciousness. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature But they are necessary, since the continuous is only accessible in the form of the discontinuous. The Psychology of Revolution Examining the panels with care I found them discontinuous with the frames. The Time Machine For you cannot make continuous being out of discontinuities, and your concepts are discontinuous. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy In a later pattern a kind of discontinuous longitudinal rib is put in the ribbon, and increases the capacity and life by strengthening the mass Fig. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Within the avenue and bank was a wall more or less discontinuous, and within the wall were packed the abodes of the burghers. The Mayor of Casterbridge The classifications without which the study of the sciences is impossible must necessarily establish the discontinuous in the continuous, and for that reason are to a certain extent artificial. The Psychology of Revolution Such a continuous change cannot be explained by a discontinuous variation, i.e. a mutation. Hormones and Heredity The essence of life is its continuously changing character; but our concepts are all discontinuous and fixed, and the only mode of making them coincide with life is by arbitrarily supposing positions of arrest therein. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy And if you ask whereupon that reasoning rests, we reply—on the fact that the clay only is continuous, permanent, while everything different from it is discontinuous, non- permanent. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 As Bateson has put it, species are discontinuous, and we must assume that their characters are discontinuous also. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation V. be discontinuous &c. adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate. discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Thus the variations which gave rise to the Flat-fish were not discontinuous but continuous. Hormones and Heredity The Wireless Telephone Transmitter.—Because a jump-spark sets up periodic oscillations, that is, the oscillations are discontinuous, it cannot be used for wireless telephony. The Radio Amateur's Hand Book For our moral faculty is the faculty by which we know that life is not made up of fragments, purposeless and discontinuous. Sadhana : the realisation of life In a complete systematic enumeration of the real units of nature, the elementary species and varieties are thus observed to be discontinuous and separated by definite gaps. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation But the movement is not perfectly fluid; for it is broken up into elementary pulses of ideas, following discontinuously upon each other. The Principles of Aesthetics He writes that in recent times the idea that variations are discontinuous has become current. Hormones and Heredity Nowhere else is the present so alien, so discontinuous, so like a crowd in a cemetery without garlands for the graves. Italian Hours Our own explanation is different, Hazlitt was not eloquent, because he was discontinuous. Biographical Essays Intuition is there, but vague and, above all, discontinuous. Bergson and His Philosophy But the great world's ingredients, so far as they are beings, seem, like the rope's fibres, to be discontinuous cross-wise, and to cohere only in the longitudinal direction. Pragmatism The author of the "Mirrors of Downing Street" describes Lord Northcliffe's mind as "discontinuous." The Mirrors of Washington It forms a discontinuous belt along the wet east coast and on the lower slopes of the mountains from southern Yucatan to Venezuela. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Hazlitt's thoughts were of the same fractured and discontinuous order as his illustrative images—seldom or never self-diffusive; and that is a sufficient argument that he had never cultivated philosophic thinking. Biographical Essays But the geographical and climatical changes which have certainly occurred within recent geological times, must have rendered discontinuous the formerly continuous range of many species. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition Weather-experience as it thus comes to Boston, is discontinuous and chaotic. Pragmatism His statesmanship was discontinuous, being an interesting avocation rather than a career. The Mirrors of Washington Evolution, in relation to Astronomy.—and creation.—conception of.—discontinuous.—experimental.—factors of.—fossil plants as evidence of.—and language.—of matter, W.C.D. Darwin and Modern Science If such were the case, reason would certainly be first, as alone making an intelligible continuity out of discontinuous perception and restoring total unity to each temporary part by a synthetic dialectic. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson But the geographical and climatal changes, which have certainly occurred within recent geological times, must have interrupted or rendered discontinuous the formerly continuous range of many species. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life It is indeed an absurdity to the "pure line" Mendelian, but not to one who appreciates the fact that Mendelian units are subject to quantitative variation sometimes continuous, sometimes discontinuous. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 Such considerations, then, plainly force upon us the conclusion that the organic progress of the world has been guided by the operation of immutable law—not determined by discontinuous, disconnected, arbitrary interventions of God. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science Accidents will happen, and beyond doubt many freaks of discontinuous distribution have to be accounted for by some such means. Darwin and Modern Science Subsequent observations have shown that, of sixty nebulae examined, nineteen give discontinuous or gaseous spectra—the remainder continuous ones. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science Fraunhofer had previously made known that the spectrum of ignited gases is discontinuous. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science If its spectrum be discontinuous, it is a true nebula or gas; if continuous, a congeries of stars. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science |
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