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.
The word discontinuity has multiple meanings in geology. In sedimentary geology, a discontinuity is a break in sedimentation that produces a time gap in the sediment record. In seismic science, a discontinuity is a surface (such as the boundary between rock units) where seismic waves abruptly change velocity.