Sentence Examples. Â» more... It's peanut butter and jelly. I pushed the door slowly and found a case of water bottles, bread, peanut butter, crackers, cheese and several sealed containers of fruits and puddings.
discontinuous-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. noncontinuous.
Gutenberg Discontinuity. Gutenberg Discontinuity. (seismic wave guide), the stratum in which seismic waves move at decreased velocities in the upper mantle of the earth. It is named after B. Gutenberg, who discovered the existence of the stratum. The upper boundary of the Gutenberg discontinuity is 80â100 km beneath the continents and about 50 km beneath the oceans.