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1. (mathematics) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities
    
2. Not continuing without interruption in time or space
   "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling"; "discontinuous applause";
   - noncontinuous

See also: broken, disjunct, disrupted, sporadic

Antonym: continuous, uninterrupted

Encyclopedia: Discontinuous