Sentence examples for a discrete unit from inspiring English sources

What united the Bright Young People and made them seem a discrete unit from the angle of the newspaper gossip column was not a shared political outlook or an economic standing, but what the society columnist Patrick Balfour called "a community of impulse".

Goodwill said a "discrete unit" within the nearby Tinsley House immigration removal centre would be used instead.

The decision by Home Office ministers to use a "discrete unit" in Tinsley House has been criticised by the chief executive of Barnardo's, Javed Khan.

Before the Civil War, for example, Americans spoke of the United States in the plural ("the United States are"), because each state was considered a discrete unit.

The inactive X chromosome (Xi) is a discrete unit of facultative heterochromatin that is selected for repression early in the development of female mammals as a means of equalizing X-linked gene dosage between the sexes1.

This study investigated the effect on energy intake of increasing the portion size of a food served as a discrete unit.

The structures of 1 3 have in common the double oxo-carboxylate bridge between gadolinium III) ions (μ-O:κ2O,O′) either as a discrete units (1 and 2) or as a chain (3) and one (3) or two (2) syn syn carboxylate bridges that reinforce this bridging pathway in 2 and 3.

A phonon is a definite discrete unit or quantum of vibrational mechanical energy, just as a photon is a quantum of electromagnetic or light energy.

A virtual cell in our model is designed as an independent, discrete unit with a set of parameters and actions.

Rather, it connotes a relatively discrete unit with some common institutions and usually a shared political life.

In current practice, the preference is to take an act or discrete unit of an act and classify it as a similarly discrete unit of the Code.