Anticontinuum
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Something that does not present as a continuum.
"Note that the space we invoke was constructed from finite particle motions assumed to be specified to some approximate numerical accuracy; we do not have to assume that this accuracy of measurement can be increased indefinitely (in fact this is ruled out by our anticontinuum corrolary to the Democritean postulate)."
Example
More examples"Note that the space we invoke was constructed from finite particle motions assumed to be specified to some approximate numerical accuracy; we do not have to assume that this accuracy of measurement can be increased indefinitely (in fact this is ruled out by our anticontinuum corrolary to the Democritean postulate)."
Etymology
From anti- + continuum.
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