discrete

Adjective

discrete (comparative more discrete, superlative most discrete)

1. Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.
   • a government with three discrete divisions
   • There are two laws discrete, / Not reconciled,— / Law for man, and law for thing; / The last builds town and fleet, / But it runs wild, / And doth the man unking.a. 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing”, in Poems, 5th edition, Boston: Pillips, Sampson & Co., published 1856, page 120
2. That can be perceived individually, not as connected to, or part of, something else.
3. Consisting of or permitting only distinct values drawn from a finite, countable set.
   • a discrete sum
4. Having separate electronic components, such as individual diodes, transistors and resistors, as opposed to integrated circuitry.
5. Having separate and independent channels of audio, as opposed to multiplexed stereo or quadraphonic, or other multi-channel sound.
6. Having each singleton subset open: said of a topological space or a topology.
7. Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause.
   • "I resign my life, but not my honour" is a discrete proposition.