(adj) not continuing without interruption in time or space, Syn.noncontinuous, Ant.continuous, Example: discontinuous applause; the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas; he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
a. 1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. [ 1913 Webster ]
A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping. “Discontinuous wound.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for certain values or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary. [ 1913 Webster ]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย