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Discretize vs Disengage - What's the difference?

discretize | disengage |

As verbs the difference between discretize and disengage

is that discretize is to convert a continuous space into an equivalent discrete space for the purposes of easier calculation while disengage is to release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.

As a noun disengage is

a circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry.

discretize

English

Alternative forms

* discretise (UK )

Verb

(discretiz)
  • (transitive, mathematics, computing) To convert a continuous space into an equivalent discrete space for the purposes of easier calculation.
  • Derived terms

    * discretization * discretizer

    disengage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (fencing) A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry
  • Verb

    (disengag)
  • (ambitransitive) To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , Disengaging myself then from his embrace, I made him sensible of the reasons there were for his present leaving me; on which, though reluctantly, he put on his cloaths with as little expedition, however, as he could help, wantonly interrupting himself, between whiles, with kisses, touches and embraces I could not refuse myself to. }}
  • * 1982 , Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything
  • Ford still had his hand stuck out. Arthur looked at it with incomprehension.
    "Shake," prompted Ford.
    Arthur did, nervously at first, as if it might turn out to be a fish. Then he grasped it vigorously with both hands in an overwhelming flood of relief. He shook it and shook it.
    After a while Ford found it necessary to disengage .

    Derived terms

    * disengagement