Sentence examples for discrete unit from inspiring English sources

What united the Bright Young People and made them seem a discrete unit from the angle of the newspaper gossip column was not a shared political outlook or an economic standing, but what the society columnist Patrick Balfour called "a community of impulse".

In current practice, the preference is to take an act or discrete unit of an act and classify it as a similarly discrete unit of the Code.

Goodwill said a "discrete unit" within the nearby Tinsley House immigration removal centre would be used instead.

The decision by Home Office ministers to use a "discrete unit" in Tinsley House has been criticised by the chief executive of Barnardo's, Javed Khan.

Before the Civil War, for example, Americans spoke of the United States in the plural ("the United States are"), because each state was considered a discrete unit.

It is time we start conceiving of the urban as a realm that stretches far beyond the discrete unit of the city – smart or otherwise.

Instead, they state thoughts in discrete units.

People are not discrete units coolly formulating moral arguments.

Mendel was lucky that the discrete symbols of algebra agreed with the discrete units of inheritance.

There were not many interstices, just discrete units — and a smaller number of them.

Potten, C.S. Cell replacement in epidermis keratopoiesis via discrete units of proliferation.