Discontinuity vs Hiatus - What's the difference?
discontinuity | hiatus | Related terms |
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
A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
An interruption, break or pause.
An unexpected break from work.
(geology) A gap in geological strata.
(anatomy) An opening in an organ.
(linguistics)
# A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)
# The condition of having such a break.
In geology terms the difference between discontinuity and hiatus
is that discontinuity is a subterranean interface at which seismic velocities change while hiatus is a gap in geological strata.As nouns the difference between discontinuity and hiatus
is that discontinuity is a lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap while hiatus is a gap in a series, making it incomplete.discontinuity
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(discontinuities)Derived terms
* Gutenberg discontinuity * * discontinuoushiatus
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(en-noun)- The band took a hiatus for three months.
- Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
- Words like'' reality ''and'' naïve ''contain vowels in hiatus .