ovine (comparative more ovine, superlative most ovine) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep. 1992, Colin Tudge, Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can be Stopped, page 175 Thus, in general, cattle sperm are reasonably robust, but sheep much less so.
A continuous function allows the x-values to be ANY points in the interval, including fractions, decimals, and irrational values. A discrete function allows the x-values to be only certain points in the interval, usually only integers or whole numbers.: Graph the continuous function: y = x 2 for all Reals.
The smaller peaks and valleys may be due to measurement errors rather than discrete spectral lines. In physics, a continuous spectrum usually means a set of attainable values for some physical quantity (such as energy or wavelength) that is best described as an interval of real numbers.