non•con•tin•u•ous
We found 2 definitions of noncontinuous from 2 different sources.
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noncontinuous - not continuing without interruption in time or space; "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling" | ||
discontinuous | ||
continuous, uninterrupted continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks" | ||
sporadic recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" | ||
broken physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken" | ||
disrupted marked by breaks or gaps; "many routes are unsafe or disrupted" |