'Discrete' definitions:
Definition of 'discrete'
From: WordNet
adjective
Constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" [syn: discrete, distinct]
Definition of 'Discrete'
From: GCIDE
- Discrete \Dis*crete"\, v. t. To separate. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Discrete'
From: GCIDE
- Discrete \Dis*crete"\, a. [L. discretus, p. p. of discernere. See Discreet.]
- 1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent. [1913 Webster]
- Discrete movement. See Concrete movement of the voice, under Concrete, a.
- Discrete proportion, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to
- 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion; as, 3:6::12:24.
- Discrete quantity, that which must be divided into units, as number, and is opposed to continued quantity, as duration, or extension. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'discrete'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alien,
- aloof,
- apart,
- assorted,
- asunder,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- bipartite,
- broadcast,
- broken,
- broken off,
- chopped-off,
- choppy,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- decousu,
- departing,
- detached,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- dichotomous,
- different,
- differentiated,
- differing,
- diffuse,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeing,
- disconnected,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- discriminated,
- disjoined,
- disjunct,
- disjunctive,
- disparate,
- dispersed,
- dispread,
- disrelated,
- disseminated,
- dissimilar,
- dissipated,
- dissociated,
- dissonant,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- distributed,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- divers,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- episodic,
- exotic,
- extraneous,
- fitful,
- foreign,
- gapped,
- herky-jerky,
- heterogeneous,
- in disagreement,
- in two,
- inaccordant,
- incoherent,
- incommensurable,
- incomparable,
- incompatible,
- incongruous,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- independent,
- individual,
- inharmonious,
- insular,
- intermittent,
- interrupted,
- irreconcilable,
- irregular,
- irrelative,
- isolated,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- many,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- nonadherent,
- nonadhesive,
- noncoherent,
- noncohesive,
- noncontinuous,
- nonlinear,
- nonsequential,
- nonserial,
- nonuniform,
- open,
- other,
- outlandish,
- parenthetic,
- partitioned,
- patchy,
- poles apart,
- poles asunder,
- removed,
- scattered,
- scrappy,
- segregate,
- separate,
- separated,
- several,
- snatchy,
- sparse,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- spread,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strange,
- strewn,
- strown,
- suspended,
- tenuous,
- unadhesive,
- unaffiliated,
- unallied,
- unassociated,
- unattached,
- unattended,
- uncoherent,
- uncohesive,
- unconformable,
- unconnected,
- unequal,
- unjoined,
- unlike,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated,
- unsuccessive,
- untenacious,
- variant,
- varied,
- variegated,
- various,
- varying,
- widely apart,
- widespread,
- worlds apart