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- noun Plural form of
discontinuity .
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Examples
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Let us return to the stratified laminae of soapy water for which the size of the discontinuities is such that we have readily accessible the elementary sheet the periodic repetition of which forms the bands.
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But when it comes to one-time events—changes that never occurred before, so-called discontinuities, such as technological innovations, price increases, shifts in consumer attitudes, government legislation—Makridakis argued that forecasting becomes “practically impossible.”
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994
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But when it comes to one-time events—changes that never occurred before, so-called discontinuities, such as technological innovations, price increases, shifts in consumer attitudes, government legislation—Makridakis argued that forecasting becomes “practically impossible.”
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994
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Page 8 But, the industry has been in a revolution of not only new technology — and the new technologies are what Drucker called the discontinuities — you go from two thousand years of throwing a shuttle across a loom with the yarn inside of the shuttle, reeling off, either by hand or by water power, by belt power or by electric power, you go from that to no shuttle but either a projectile like a bullet or
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Aside from the mathematical sloppiness of taking two independent variables to a limit at the same time, at unspecified rates, these sorts of "discontinuities" can be found in just about any scientific theory.
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But none of these are counterexamples or "discontinuities": they are just a misinterpretation of the formulas.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] NotesTH 2010
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But none of these are counterexamples or "discontinuities": they are just a misinterpretation of the formulas.
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Aside from the mathematical sloppiness of taking two independent variables to a limit at the same time, at unspecified rates, these sorts of "discontinuities" can be found in just about any scientific theory.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] NotesTH 2010
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Aside from the mathematical sloppiness of taking two independent variables to a limit at the same time, at unspecified rates, these sorts of "discontinuities" can be found in just about any scientific theory.
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But none of these are counterexamples or "discontinuities": they are just a misinterpretation of the formulas.
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