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Incongruity vs Discontinuity - What's the difference?

incongruity | discontinuity |

As nouns the difference between incongruity and discontinuity

is that incongruity is the state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence while discontinuity is a lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap.

incongruity

English

Noun

(incongruities)
  • The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
  • An instance or point of disagreement; a dissimilarity; a discrepancy; an inconsistency.
  • A thing that is incongruous.

    • References

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    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