Definitions
constituting a separate entity or part
Word origin
From Old French discret, from Latin discrētus, past participle of discernō (“divide”), from dis- + cernō (“sift”). Doublet of discreet.
Used in a sentence
“a government with three discrete divisions”
“There are two laws discrete, / Not reconciled,— / Law for man, and law for thing; / The last builds town and fleet, / But it runs wild, / And doth the man unking.”
“It's not that there aren't measurable, quantifiable differences between all these categories we impose upon things, it's just that for the most part they fit not into discrete units, but into a continuum.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Not continuous”8 letters
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