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discontinuous
Adjective
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If something is discontinuous, it has breaks or interruptions; it has discontinuity.
Our meeting was discontinuous; we had several breaks for eating and using the restroom.
The series was then discontinuous.
variation
Noun
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A variation of something is the same thing, but changed a little bit.
The music is a variation of a Japanese song from the 1950s.
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Variation is the difference in amount, colour, size, etc. among many things.
There was a lot of variation in price among the stores.