- 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...
- The
Conrad discontinuity corresponds to the sub-horizontal
boundary in the
continental crust at
which the
seismic wave
velocity increases in a discontinuous...
-
political science, epidemiology, and
related disciplines, a
regression discontinuity design (RDD) is a quasi-experimental pretest–posttest
design that aims...
- Mohorovičić
discontinuity (/ˌmoʊhəˈroʊvɪtʃɪtʃ/ MOH-hə-ROH-vih-chitch; Croatian: [moxorôʋiːtʃitɕ]) –
usually called the Moho
discontinuity, Moho boundary...
- 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...
- 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...
- In
geotechnical engineering, a
discontinuity (often
referred to as a joint) is a
plane or
surface that
marks a
change in
physical or
chemical characteristics...
- In linguistics, a
discontinuity occurs when a
given word or
phrase is
separated from
another word or
phrase that it
modifies in such a
manner that a direct...
-
possibilities of
relative movement along a
discontinuity in a soil or rock m**** in
geotechnical engineering.
Discontinuities are
usually differentiated in persistent...
