Sentence examples for complete discontinuity from inspiring English sources

The original statement by Workman and Reynolds that the potential barrier is at the water-ice interface means in the ordinary use of language that the potential change, which may be more than 100 volts, is a complete discontinuity there, or at best is spread over a distance of a few molecular diameters, involving an electric force of millions of volts a centimetre.

There was apparently complete discontinuity between Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England; it was once believed that the Romano-British were slaughtered or driven west by hordes of invading Anglo-Saxons, part of the great westward movement of 'barbarians' overwhelming the western empire.

A complete discontinuity existed between Reagan's manner and body language, on the one hand, and his scarily simplistic far-right message on the other.

Such findings of complete discontinuity of the peripheral nerve exclude any spontaneous recovery in this particular nerve.

Speciation is often considered a continuum of divergence ranging from continuous variation among individuals within one species to complete discontinuity among groups in genetic, physiological and phenotypic adaptations to specific environments.

In 3 of these 4 patients, the cement mantle fractures resulted in a complete circumferential discontinuity of the cement mantle.

26 These disturbances, which are serious and costly, may involve stress fractures of the pubis or medial wall, significant bone loss secondary to osteolysis and subsequent loss of column integrity, or complete pelvic discontinuity.

In all 3 patients with a complete circumferential discontinuity of the cement mantle, the occurrence of fractures in the cement mantle was accompanied by a considerable and disproportionate increase in subsidence (2.3, 1.8, and 1.0 mm).

Type I defects were present in 8 hips (26.7%), type II A in 9 (30%), type II B in 3 (10%), type II C in 3 (10%), type III A in 2 (6.7%), type III B in 3 (10%) and type IV with complete pelvic discontinuity in 2 (6.7%).

Lamarck stressed the continuity of all species: if our knowledge of the living world (and by extension, the fossil record of extinct species) were totally complete, the discontinuities between species would disappear, as species would appear to gradually meld into one another in time and in space.

In order to improve the performance of the complete system, the discontinuity in the control law must be smoothed out to avoid the undesirable chattering effects.