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separate or distinct

We collected data from three discrete studies.

discrete = separate or distinct

It's not clear which of the discrete medical specialties would be best at diagnosing her illness.

discrete = separate or distinct

When an intelligence agency intercepted a code containing sensitive data, cryptographers each worked on a discrete section of the code.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Each step was a discrete event, requiring conscious effort.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
I would move off a discrete distance, out of sight, but within easy talking distance.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
It was dense and impenetrable in places while thin in others, and the slight breeze made discrete tendrils curve and twist, almost as if alive.
Nicholas Sparks -- True Believer
He says there are no such things as discrete objects which remain unchanged, set apart from the flow of time.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Crime, on the other hand, isn't a single discrete tiling, but a word used to describe an almost impossibly varied and complicated set of behaviors.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
So perhaps you will permit an older comrade to lend you the words, since it often helps to have discrete words.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
In every man there are two hemispheres of light and dark, two worlds discrete, two countries of his soul's adventure.
Thomas Wolfe -- The Child by Tiger
On the other, we have a great deal of ASW arrayed to locate her, and she will be heading towards one of only a few discrete locations.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
He winked at her discretely and then banged his head against the glass, this time hard enough to give himself a headache.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
She made him speak in lines that were difficult to sound-bite, discrete units of ideas, notions.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
He looks across the room in this upper-level course and decides, then and there, that he'll sign up for discrete math-and stick with all the other classes.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
And soon the screen had sixteen discrete images on it, all of them transmitting live feed.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
I'm a discrete particle physicist.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
The number of classrooms was one, they immediately discovered, which served all grades from first to seventh, the students separated in discrete clusters by age.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
A certifiable genius (who was definitely never a prodigy), Einstein had figured out that light can act, in a seeming paradox, both as a discrete particle and as a wave.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
Every moment—every blink—is composed of a series of discrete moving parts, and every one of those parts offers an opportunity for intervention, for reform, and for correction.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
The whole body moved in a single rhythm of breathing, walking, and thinking; the lungs, no longer discrete and automatic, were disciplined to harmony with mind and limb.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon

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