Definition of "discontinuities" [discontinuities]

• Plural form of discontinuity. (noun)

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• "Let us return to the stratified laminae of soapy water for which the size of the discontinuities is such that we have readily accessible the elementary sheet the periodic repetition of which forms the bands."
• "But when it comes to one-time events—changes that never occurred before, so-called discontinuities, such as technological innovations, price increases, shifts in consumer attitudes, government legislation—Makridakis argued that forecasting becomes “practically impossible.”"
• "Page 8 But, the industry has been in a revolution of not only new technology — and the new technologies are what Drucker called the discontinuities — you go from two thousand years of throwing a shuttle across a loom with the yarn inside of the shuttle, reeling off, either by hand or by water power, by belt power or by electric power, you go from that to no shuttle but either a projectile like a bullet or"