The phrase "a discrete entity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is distinct, separate, or individually identifiable within a larger context.
Example: "In the study of ecosystems, each species is considered a discrete entity that plays a unique role in the environment."
Alternatives: "a distinct unit" or "an individual component".
But if it does not remain a discrete entity within government, its more subtle concerns will be doubtless be marginalised.
But HAL was a discrete entity, a genie in a bottle, something we imagined owning or being assigned.
We become consciously aware of ourselves as a discrete entity only through language – and language is inherently inter-subjective; it is a social practice.
For some it means hard polytheism: every god and goddess from every religion past and present is a discrete entity with his or her own personality and attributes.
We're used to thinking that each person speaks an individual language — his mother tongue — and that this mother tongue is a discrete entity, with a vocabulary manipulated by a fixed grammar.
Finally, his hysterical notion of Al Qaeda as a terrifying Mafia-like octopus requires revision in the light of such recent political analyses as Jason Burke's "Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror," which persuasively presents Al Qaeda as a vague rubric for disparate terror groups rather than a discrete entity.
BVDSim was designed as a discrete-entity and discrete-event simulation model.
Consciousness, these studies show, isn't a single discrete entity so much as a concert performance -- not so much a "ghost in the machine" as a whole armada of ghosts haunting an intricate network of machinery.
But as all those Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals have stated clearly in their introductions, while the book seems to name the mental illnesses found in nature, it actually makes "no assumption that each category of mental disorder is a completely discrete entity with absolute boundaries dividing it from other mental disorders or no mental disorder".
We observed that the GAA repeat was transmitted from parent to offspring as a single discrete entity, but with variation of the specific GAA repeat size.
Diagnostic systems such as the current version of the DSM, allow for certain flexibility in the definition of diagnostic categories, with no assumption that each category of mental disorder is a completely discrete entity.
