- Look up
discontinuity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Discontinuity may
refer to:
Discontinuity (casting), an
interruption in the
normal physical...
- point") of its domain, one says that it has a
discontinuity there. The set of all
points of
discontinuity of a
function may be a
discrete set, a dense...
- Mohorovičić
discontinuity (/ˌmoʊhəˈroʊvɪtʃɪtʃ/ MOH-hə-ROH-vih-chitch; Croatian: [moxorôʋiːtʃitɕ]) –
usually called the Moho
discontinuity, Moho boundary...
-
political science, epidemiology, and
related disciplines, a
regression discontinuity design (RDD) is a quasi-experimental pretest–posttest
design that aims...
- The
Lehmann discontinuity is an
abrupt increase of P-wave and S-wave
velocities at the
depth of 220 km (140 mi) in Earth's mantle,
discovered by seismologist...
- seismic-
discontinuity depths of
about 410 to 660
kilometres (250 to 410 mi), but more
broadly defined as the zone encomp****ing
those discontinuities, i.e...
- The
Gutenberg discontinuity occurs within Earth's
interior at a
depth of
about 2,900 km (1,800 mi)
below the surface,
where there is an
abrupt change...
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Illusory discontinuity is an
auditory illusion in
which a
continuous ongoing sound becomes inaudible during a brief, non-masking noise. The
illusion is...
- Black-Body
Theory and the
Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912 (1978;
second edition 1987) is a book by the
philosopher Thomas Kuhn, in
which the
author surveys...
- The
Conrad discontinuity corresponds to the sub-horizontal
boundary in the
continental crust at
which the
seismic wave
velocity increases in a discontinuous...
