Neutron capture, type of nuclear reaction in which a target nucleus absorbs a neutron (uncharged particle), then emits a discrete quantity of electromagnetic energy (gamma-ray photon).
All we get for an answer from the Categories is that number is a discrete quantity.
By contrast no constituent parts of a discrete quantity can possess a common boundary.
We therefore attempt to bring the model closer to the observed biology by formulating cell division as an asynchronous process, using the formulation of stochastic Markov processes, in which time is now a continuous, rather than a discrete, quantity (see Materials and Methods for details).
One recent study with adult humans [38] has provided evidence that the extraction of a representation of continuous extent, such as the area of stimuli, in most cases proceeds more rapidly than the extraction of a representation of discrete quantity.
In discussing this he returns to the distinction he had drawn in Quodlibet VI, q. 16 between the kind of unity which serves as a principle of number and which is based on discrete quantity, and the kind that is convertible with being, transcendental unity.
In Quodlibet VI, q. 16 he distinguishes between the one or the kind of unity that serves as a principle for number and which is based on discrete quantity (numerical unity in the strict sense), and the kind that is convertible with being.
Lefèvre's language of numbers as composed of units is commonplace, but it serves a realist interpretation of Aristotle's category of discrete quantity.
Cytological evaluation revealed high celullarity composed predominately by a high quantity of erythrocytes, moderate quantity of metarubricytes and discrete quantity of megakaryocytes, osteoclasts, rubricytes, promyelocytes, myeloblasts, prorubricytes and rubriblasts.
