0 the fact that something changes or stops rather than continuing in the same way; a change or stop that means something does not continue in the same way:
Up to 85 percent of patients visit their primary care doctors before a summary of their last hospitalization arrives. This discontinuity is a well-recognized hazard.
In our study we were concerned with the continuity and discontinuity of depression from adolescence to early adulthood.
Cheap oil will not exist forever, and without it we face a discontinuity in the systems we depend on in daily life.
They are trying to prepare for uncertainties, discontinuities, and unlikely or "wild card" events.
The authors understand the psychosocial elements of change and the discontinuities in power it provokes.
