discrete element
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdiscreteandelement
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discrete
adjective
uk/dɪˈskriːt/us/dɪˈskriːt/
clearly separate or different in shape ...
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element
noun
uk/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition ofdiscreteandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The computational costs of this approach are limited, so that the method can be applied in adiscreteelementmethod simulation.
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Gradually adding additional textural layers, the interface quickly reaches a point where a performer cannot consciously control eachdiscreteelement.
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Yet we have chosen to rope off onediscreteelementof that nuclear balance and to make a response to it.
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There is scientific evidence for a long reach, mainly in the form ofdiscreteelementmodelling used in the mining industry.
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Discreteelementmethods are relatively computationally intensive, which limits either the length of a simulation or the number of particles.
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It provides advantages both of classical cellular automaton anddiscreteelementmethods.
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Discreteelementmethod is very effective to simulate granular materials, but mutual forces among movable cellular automata provides simulating solids behavior.
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In such cases, the leftmostdiscreteelementis treated as the left segment, and the rest of the kanji as the right segment.
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In imagining the discrete elements of the settler empire there was, however, a striking fracture in the foundations of intellectual authority.
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An alternative meaning, the one that anecdote conventionally carries in art criticism, locates the anecdotal as discrete elements within the painting.
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When listening to speech, speakers of a language are able to segment the nearly continuous speech signal into discrete elements.
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This automaton consists of four states and four transitions for a total of eight discrete elements.
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Real media consists of discrete elements: molecules, atoms, ions etc., and the latter cannot be reduced to the former without ensemble averaging.
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Measurements were concentrated on the discrete elements.
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Class 2 transitional individuals displayed pinnae subdivided into a small number of discrete elements (usually 3 to 5), most or all of which were held in roughly the horizontal plane.
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Buck (2001) explains that listening comprehension involves knowledge of discrete elements of language such as phonology, vocabulary and syntax but it goes beyond this because listening also involves interpretation.
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These costs are not always readily identifiable and do not lend themselves to presentation as discrete elements of the programme.
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If rock is modeled as discrete elements in a critical state, a single disturbance can influence a wide area.
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When all elements are properly coordinated, the discrete elements become almost invisible to the untrained eye.
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