Sentence examples for discrete rather than from inspiring English sources

This is what is meant by saying that phonemes are absolutely distinct from one another they are discrete rather than continuously variable.

A cellular automaton is in essence a little machine with groups of cells that evolve from iteration to iteration in discrete rather than continuous time – in seconds, say, each tick of the clock advances the next iteration, and then over time, behaving a bit like a transformer or a shape-shifter, the cells evolve into something, anything, everything else.

During the 1960s the Swedish physicist Jan Hogbom developed a technique called CLEAN, which is used to remove the spurious responses from a celestial radio image caused by the use of discrete, rather than continuous, spacings in deriving the radio image.

According to proponents of the 'perceptual moment' hypothesis, the workings of our sensory systems are discrete rather than continuous.

In the end, most Islamic speculative theologians concluded that the matter constituting the cosmos must be discrete rather than continuous.

However, accuracy data are discrete rather than continuous, and proportion correct are constrained to the range 0 1.

Moreover, the continualization method allows one to directly solve the discrete governing equations for vibration of microstructured beams in the discrete domain rather than solving an approximated continuous equation obtained via the Padé approximant.

With the chicken Ria Mar, I wished for discrete flavors, rather than homogeneity.

The report recounts many allegations against him as if they were discrete events rather than seeing them as part of a continuous process.

It helps that Ms. Johnson's brain damage was limited to discrete lesions rather than being diffuse or pervasive, the scientists say.

He also ran up against a tactile constraint known as "two-point discrimination" — our ability to tell that two things touching the skin are indeed discrete objects, rather than a single large one.