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discrete adjective [ dɪˈskriːt ]

• individually separate and distinct.
• "speech sounds are produced as a continuous sound signal rather than discrete units"
Similar: separate, distinct, individual, detached, unattached, disconnected, discontinuous, disjunct, disjoined,
Opposite: connected,
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin discretus ‘separate’; compare with discreet.


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