discrete unit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdiscreteandunit
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discrete
adjective
uk/dɪˈskriːt/us/dɪˈskriːt/
clearly separate or different in shape ...
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unit
noun
uk/ˈjuː.nɪt/us/ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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(Definition ofdiscreteandunitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That split is sensible, because the local community has long wanted to run its own railway, and it is adiscreteunit.
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For their first mission as adiscreteunit, the party is assigned a small shuttlepod and instructed to sweep the nearby area.
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Hence, thediscreteunit"in my pyjamas" plays a different grammatical role in the deep structure of the sentence.
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If the "familia" was thediscreteunitunderlying society, these interlocking networks countered that autonomy and created the bonds that made a complex society possible.
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These quotes presume that visual images are constellations of discrete units combined according to culture-specific logic.
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In comprehension, linguistic input is perceived in more or less discrete units that are presented over time.
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By usingdiscreteunit-volume droplets, a microfluidic function can be reduced to a set of repeated basic operations, i.e., moving one unit of fluid over one unit of distance.
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Lexigrams are relatively discrete units that are activated by touch and do not vary in production characteristics.
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While public facilities are usually treated as discrete units, pollution-reducing infrastructure is more realistically treated as continuously distributed over the city.
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Several commentators complained that operant learning did not possess the monolithic and discrete units found in gene-based selection in biology and the immune system.
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Now dynasties appear as discrete units and hence obscure the larger trans-dynastic structural patterns and transformations that would help us understand later intellectual developments.
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Generative linguistics showed that language could not be neatly dissected into the linear, discrete units claimed by structuralists.
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Both in utterances and in the objects that are their substratum the causal entities are not discrete units or limited categories.
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After locating the radiocollared animals, the helicopter circled the roost up to a radius of 5 km in visual searches to determine if the colony had formed smaller discrete units.
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For example, following the early work on heuristics and biases, many people rushed to conclusions about cognitive skills based on studies that looked only at discrete units of behavior.
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Odden uses spectrograms and waveforms to demonstrate the continuousness of the phonetic signal compared with the assumption of discrete units (segments) for phonology.
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The physical world is continuous at biological scales, but life is to a great extent based on discrete units that can interact in essentially arbitrary ways.
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These amendments would seem to break down any devolution package into discrete units, and consequently make the possibility of reaching an agreement considerably more remote.
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Most languages have words consisting of several morphemes, but they vary in the degree to which morphemes are discrete units.
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They are soluble only in the presence of a ligand which liberates discrete units.
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