The volume of a crystal, on the other hand, converts discontinuously, increasing abruptly when the solid is reheated to a liquid at the melting point d.
The perpetually frozen subsurface known as permafrost lies a few feet beneath the surface of the islands in the delta and exists discontinuously beneath the entire Mackenzie Lowlands north of Great Slave Lake.
Forests similar to the Mediterranean sclerophyllous forests extend east, discontinuously, as far as the western slopes of the Himalayas, although throughout their range they have been extensively altered by human activities and nowhere are considered to be in their natural state.
The mountains are intimately related to the East African Rift System, the fractures of which extend discontinuously between the Zambezi River valley and the Red Sea and are flanked in many areas by highlands.
Ultimately a shock front develops over which the density and hence the pressure and temperature rises almost discontinuously.
What makes a cowlick "singular" is that a variable (the hair's direction) changes abruptly and discontinuously there.
Thom Willems's score thrums discontinuously.
Underlying this suggestion is the idea that the brain operates in some way discontinuously in time on its inputs' (1968: 395); also see Stroud (1955).
In Rovelli's proposal, the concepts of measurement interaction and of definite outcomes of measurements are primary; moreover, the state has to be updated every time that a measurement event occurs and, as a consequence, it changes discontinuously with every new event.
The first is 'The Postulate of Quasi-permanence' which states that there is a certain kind of persistence in the world, for generally things do not change discontinuously.
Indeed, Mill seems to claim here not just that higher pleasures are intrinsically more valuable than lower ones but that they are discontinuously better (II 6).
