"discontinuous" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe different things that are not connected, like when something is broken up or interrupted. For example: "The path was discontinuous, with several breaks in its length."
As cricket fans well know, one of the toughest deliveries to face in cricket is a "googly", where the ball's movement is discontinuous and difficult to predict, posing a challenge for even the most experienced batsmen.
But they can refuse discontinuous blocks of leave, as coming and going over the year will cause disruption for them, says Marian Bloodworth, an employment lawyer at Berwin Leighton Paisner.
The cost to an employer of converting an expiring temporary contract into a permanent one is quite high because of a discontinuous jump in the cost of sacking the worker.
A rare few represent discontinuous breakthroughs, such as the incandescent lamp, alternating electric current or the jet engine.
For another, the issue has discontinuous policy choices.
It requires companies to be led by "visionaries" in place of today's "administrators", a lowly breed who Mr Hamel says "possess an exaggerated confidence in great execution, believing this is all you need to succeed in a discontinuous world.
That is because Toyota's real edge is the strong culture which drives its unrelenting quest for quality.Bill Reinert, a senior Toyota official based in North America, explains it thus: "What's discontinuous about our firm is the very long view of management.
(This means that some DNA segments that geneticists call genes are not continuous segments of DNA; they are collections of discontinuous exons. Geneticists call these split genes).
This naturally leads to two notions of discontinuous composition: a deterministic view, where wrapping targets a particular split point, and a non-deterministic view where the targeted split point is arbitrary.
The position of the discontinuous calculi of §3.2 in this hierarchy has to be determined: they recognize more than the context-free languages, but it is not clear whether they stay within the mildly context-sensitive family.
Then Aristotle's full answer to the paradox is that the question of whether the infinite series of runs is possible or not is ambiguous: the potentially infinite series of halves in a continuous run is possible, while an actual infinity of discontinuous half runs is not Zeno does identify an impossibility, but it does not describe the usual way of running down tracks!
