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.
The discontinuous line spectra of light produced when excited atoms return to their ground state and emit photons of a certain frequency. Atomic Absorption Spectrum. The spectrum of certain absorbed wavelengths of light corresponding to an atom's spectrum of emitted frequencies of light.