1. 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
    
2. (mathematics) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities
   "The discontinuous function had a sudden jump at x = 2"

See also: broken, disjunct, disrupted, sporadic

Antonym: continuous

Encyclopedia: Discontinuous