1 having an independent existence or form apart from other similar things; separate:
This area has four discrete neighborhoods centered around a school.
She takes the broadest of views, including any discrete carbonate structure with topographic relief formed by in situ or bound organic components.
We therefore suggest that the encoding of discrete category representations be added as a fifth challenge for cognitive neuroscience.
Regular forms are thus productively generated by rules which are discrete, categorical and symbolic objects used in a specialized, innate language module.
Examination of charr stomach contents revealed two discrete types of feeding.
On the other hand, discrete emotional signals may convey different information and be processed distinctly.
Such situations also require populations to be relatively discrete with little external recruitment through immigration.
As in the continuous case, the discrete elasticity complex will be realized as a subcomplex of this complex.
If the pattern differs markedly, it would indicate that there may be two fairly discrete stages of word processing.
