discrete

In a sentence

Six example sentences with discrete, each labelled with its topic.

• Digital recording stores sound as discrete samples, forty-four thousand of them for every second of the finished track.

  Music

• The test breaks attention into four discrete components, each measured by its own task rather than one overall score.

  Psychology

• The museum reads as one long wall outside, but inside it holds nine discrete rooms with no shared sightlines.

  Architecture

• The laptop has a discrete graphics chip with its own memory, rather than sharing the processor's like cheaper models.

  Technology

• Electrons occupy discrete energy levels in the atom, jumping between them but never resting anywhere in between.

  Science

• The court treated each forged signature as a discrete offense, so the indictment listed twelve counts rather than one scheme.

  Law

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