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Discontinuity vs Uncountability - What's the difference?

discontinuity | uncountability |

As nouns the difference between discontinuity and uncountability

is that discontinuity is a lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap while uncountability is the quality of being uncountable.

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

    uncountability

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being uncountable.
    • the grammatical uncountability of a noun
    the uncountability of the stars in the night sky

    Antonyms

    * countability