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.
Numeric variables may be further described as either continuous or discrete: 1  A continuous variable is a numeric variable. Observations can take any value between a certain set of real numbers. 2  A discrete variable is a numeric variable. Observations can take a value based on a count from a set of distinct whole values.