Discontinuity
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Discontinuity may refer to:
  • Discontinuity (casting), a harmless irregularity in a casting
  • Discontinuity (Geotechnical engineering)
    Discontinuity (geotechnical engineering)
    A discontinuity in geotechnical engineering is a plane or surface that marks a change in physical or chemical characteristics in a soil or rock mass. A discontinuity can be, for example, a bedding, schistosity, foliation, joint, cleavage, fracture, fissure, crack, or fault plane...

     in geotechnics is a plane or surface marking a change in physical or chemical properties in a soil or rock mass
  • Discontinuity (mathematics), a property of a mathematical function
  • Discontinuity (Postmodernism)
    Discontinuity (Postmodernism)
    For Michel Foucault , discontinuity and continuity reflect the flow of history and the fact that some "things are no longer perceived, described, expressed, characterised, classified, and known in the same way" from one era to the next...

    , a conception of history as espoused by the philosopher Michel Foucault.
  • A break in continuity (fiction)
    Continuity (fiction)
    In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time...

    , in literature
  • Fracture (geology), discontinuity in rocks
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