Sentence examples for were discrete from inspiring English sources

During Cray's era of supercomputing — the 1960's to early 90's — processors were discrete, built from separate components.

The therapist had taught him to identify and label what she said were discrete feelings.

In effect, Leibniz reasoned with continuous quantities as if they were discrete.

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

The two volumes were discrete, the first discussing the evolution of civilization and human origins among the Old World monkeys.

I interspersed flights of fancy like the "not your everyday Caprese" salad — in which the mozzarella appears in delicate, ready-to-burst spheres like the olive bombs — with grilled hanger steak, and found myself enjoying them more because they were discrete peaks on a varied landscape.

His policies — like health care, saving the auto industry, raising mileage standards and "Race to the Top" in education — were discrete initiatives in the right direction, but each was fought separately, often in Congressional cloakrooms, and never synthesized into a whole that voters could fully appreciate or be inspired to get out of their chairs to support.

In many other areas of science, they argue, it is permissible to talk of certain phenomena as if they were discrete entities, even though the terms involved are really nothing more than convenient ways of referring, at a certain level of generality, to complex patterns of objects or events.

Transitions among different phases were discrete with hysteresis loops.

These asymmetries were discrete compared to those seen during the aura phase of a migraine attack.

Unsurprisingly, Tbr2+ cells were discrete and disorganized in mutant organoids (Fig. 4E).