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Discontinuity vs Cutover - What's the difference?

discontinuity | cutover |

As nouns the difference between discontinuity and cutover

is that discontinuity is a lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap while cutover is an area of cutover land.

As an adjective cutover is

having been cleared of valuable timber.

discontinuity

English

Noun

(discontinuities)
  • A lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap.
  • *2012 , , Turing's Cathedral , Penguin 2013, p. 57:
  • *:Shock waves are sudden discontinuities propagated in compressible media – usually air.
  • (mathematics) A point in the range of a function at which it is undefined or discontinuous.
  • (geology) a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change

    • Derived terms

    * Gutenberg discontinuity * * discontinuous

    cutover

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having been cleared of valuable timber.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An area of cutover land.
  • The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.