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Discontinuity vs Discontinuation - What's the difference?

discontinuity | discontinuation |

As nouns the difference between discontinuity and discontinuation

is that discontinuity is a lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap while discontinuation is breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

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

    discontinuation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.