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Webster 1913 Edition
Discrete
1.
Separate; distinct; disjunct.
Sir M. Hale.
2.
Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause;
as, “I resign my life, but not my honor,” is a
. discrete
proposition3.
(Bot.)
Separate; not coalescent; – said of things usually coalescent.
Discrete movement
. – Discrete proportion
, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or
– continual proportion
; as, 3:6::12:24. Discrete quantity
, that which must be divided into units, as number, and is opposed to
continued quantity
, as duration, or extension.Dis-crete′
,Verb.
T.
To separate.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Discrete
DISCRETE
,Adj.
1.
Separate; distinct; disjunct. Discrete proportion is when the ratio of two or more pairs of numbers or quantities is the same, but there is not the same proportion between all the numbers; as 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6, as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 is to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion, as 3:6::12:24.2.
Disjunctive; as, I resign my life, but not my honor, is a discrete proposition.DISCRETE
,Verb.
T.