Sentence examples for a discrete category from inspiring English sources

The app's central feature is a wheel with 24 spokes, where each sliver represents a discrete category of sensory experience – such as "meaty", "bitter" or "mouthfeel".

The predictive modelling revealed that 92.98% of clashes reside within the 30 299 mm range while the most probable occurrence of a clash overlap resides in a discrete category of 100 199 mm.

To facilitate progress, taxometric analyses were conducted to determine whether hypochondriasis is best understood as a discrete category, consistent with the DSM, or as a dimensional entity, consistent with prevailing opinion and most self-report measures.

Seeking to defend religion, Armstrong argues that it acts against violence as often as it encourages it; that civilization itself is inherently violent; that religious tradition is not "a single, unchanging essence"; and that, for most of human history, religion was indistinguishable from politics, society, and culture, and therefore "religious violence" was meaningless as a discrete category.

(When looking at more mature companies in the space, another consideration is that many, such as computer vision juggernaut Mobileye, started out before driverless vehicles existed as a discrete category).

Human life is now not only a social and biological but also a geological force (Chakrabarty 2); nor is human life any longer a discrete category, as "humans are now part of the natural history of the planet" (10).

To directly test for neural correlates of category formation, a discrete category-boundary between similar-looking birds was established by training (Figure 2a).

After visual training, fMRI showed that responses in the right fusiform gyrus were larger for bird types for which a discrete category-boundary was established as compared with not-trained bird types.

We predicted that if category formation is mediated by increased neuronal responsiveness in occipitotemporal cortex, this increase should occur only for those birds for which a discrete category-boundary has been established, compared with visually similar birds for which no such boundary has been learned.

The data set has also been characterized to some extent using a discrete-category theory of emotion (Davis, Rahman, Smith, & Burns, 1995; Mikels et al., 2005).

In particular, there is a need for future research and scholarly work in the area to challenge essentialist notions of ethnicity and to engage more critically with notions of ethnic 'difference', recognising instead the instability of 'ethnicity' as a fixed and discrete category, much like other social categories including those relating to age, gender and social class.