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Sporadic vs Discontinuity - What's the difference?

sporadic | discontinuity |

As an adjective sporadic

is rare and scattered in occurrence.

As a noun discontinuity is

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

sporadic

English

Alternative forms

* sporadick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Rare and scattered in occurrence.
  • Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.

    • Derived terms

    * sporadic E layer

    Related terms

    * sporadical * sporadically * sporadicalness

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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