Sentence examples for but discrete from inspiring English sources

Yet some interesting communications channels were not continuous but discrete: the telegraph and teletype.

And that is where the contrarians rush in, proposing that reality is not continuous but discrete, with a smallest possible length and a smallest possible duration of time.

His daring but discrete policies are starting to feel like a work plan that we have to slog through, and endlessly compromise over, just to finish for finishing's sake — not because they are all building blocks of a great national project.

a Gadolinium-enhanced MRA with MIP reconstruction showing typical but discrete involvement of the internal carotid artery (white arrows).

Several decades ago it was all about how, at the very small scales of atoms, energy comes in chunks or "quanta": not continuous, like water, but discrete, like money.

Herbart had advocated a three-dimensional real world of causally connected but discrete monads, which the mind treats via the concept of a continuum, which it supplies, thereby turning its discrete experiences into spectra of possibilities.

Sodomy was not the definitional element of a person's sexual orientation, but a discrete act.

But for discrete plaques noting the architect of each block, the mundane details of everyday life window decorations, garden furniture, doormats enliven these largely blank canvasses.

At the end of last year they reported that the scale of the grids not only varies, but makes discrete jumps.

But also discrete time models may be identified.

Things like 'ls' and 'cat' aren't core parts of the kernel, but rather discrete binary programs.