Sentence Examples. Â» more... It's peanut butter and jelly. I pushed the door slowly and found a case of water bottles, bread, peanut butter, crackers, cheese and several sealed containers of fruits and puddings.
discontinuous-not continuing without interruption in time or space; discontinuous applause; the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas; he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling. noncontinuous.
Other factors have been used to discount the deterministic role of genetics in favor of a more interactive environmentâgenetic model. Continuous vs. Discontinuous Some theories of human development hold that development proceeds in a way that is portrayed as a series of stair steps. That is, change from one stage to another requires qualitative change in the processes underlying human abilities. These are discontinuous theories.