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S vs Discontinuity - What's the difference?

s | discontinuity |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun discontinuity is

a lack of continuity, regularity or sequence; a break or gap.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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