"discrete units" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe individual components of a larger whole. For example, "The professor broke down his lecture into several discrete units, making it easier to understand and remember."
Instead, they state thoughts in discrete units.
People are not discrete units coolly formulating moral arguments.
Chips, being discrete units of food, rather than a single blob or lump of food, have a social element.
It's time to dismantle brand-name obstacles to the inevitable change from selling music as discrete units of plastic to delivering it as information.
Digital colour is individuated; it comes in discrete units; there is no mergence or modulation; there are only boundaries, steps and edges".
This perspective thinks of society as composed of discrete units, gangs if you will, engaged in struggles for legitimacy and resources.
Despite the amount of white space between the discrete units of text, the effect is familiar: it is a blocky stream of consciousness — a stream of interruptions, perhaps.
His preference for the analysis of continuous curves rather than discrete units antagonized William Bateson, a pioneering Mendelian geneticist.
Just as the periodic table of elements illustrates the discrete units of the physical world, Dr. Baker's hierarchy charts the finite set of discrete factors that create differences in grammars.
Our counting numbers (1, 2, 3, etc) are probably less than 10,000 years old, an offshoot of language, and there were probably no more than a handful of these discrete units for most of that time.
To engineers accustomed to continuous waveforms, this revolutionary and divisive technique of splitting them into discrete units of ones and zeros was both alien and abstract, but it found favour.
