discrete object
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdiscreteandobject
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discrete
adjective
uk/dɪˈskriːt/us/dɪˈskriːt/
clearly separate or different in shape ...
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object
noun
uk/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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(Definition ofdiscreteandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Since there is generally a clear separation between the browser and the plug-in, the results are discrete objects embedded within a webpage.
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Though we perceive a world of concrete and discrete objects, designated by names, on close analysis the thingness dissolves, leaving them empty of inherent existence.
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Matriliny thus became adiscreteobjectof exaggerated importance.
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It was onediscreteobjectthat was easily counted.
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Identifications involve reference to the discrete objects and events within the communicative context and require little understanding of the conversational partner's theory of mind.
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But, as yet, we do not have a convenient internal logical characterisation in these terms for the discrete objects.
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For this reason we view the realization of finite elements as differential forms, rather than as discrete objects which mimic differential forms, as highly desirable.
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Hence, discrete objects are not really any more 'objective' than an arbitrarily chosen partition of the space into cells.
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Network theory concerns itself with the study of graphs as a representation of either symmetric relations or, more generally, of asymmetric relations between discrete objects.
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Though we perceive a world of concrete and discrete objects, designated by names, on close analysis the thingness dissolves, leaving them empty of inherent existence.
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Since there is generally a clear separation between the browser and the plug-in, the results are discrete objects embedded within a webpage.
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Real objects can be divided into two abstractions: discrete objects (e.g., a house) and continuous fields (such as rainfall amount, or elevations).
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Discrete objects can often be enumerated by integers.
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For example, the abstract concept of number springs from the experience of counting discrete objects.
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Though we perceive a world of concrete and discrete objects, these objects are empty of the identity imputed by their designated labels.
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In particular, this field of mathematics offers formalized approaches for calculating the number of ways of choosing or arranging discrete objects; in this case, atoms or molecules.
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Firstly, there is the segregation problem: a practical computational problem of how brains segregate elements in complex patterns of sensory input so that they are allocated to discrete objects.
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The company redesigned the repository to ensure that it could manage a very large number of discrete objects ranging from self-contained documents to granular information snippets.
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