discrete time

noun

A framework which views values of variables as occurring at distinct, separate points in time, or equivalently as being unchanged throughout each nonzero region of time.

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Meanings

noundiscrete time (countable and uncountable, plural discrete times)

plural discrete times

  1. countableuncountablemathematical dynamicsmathematicsA framework which views values of variables as occurring at distinct, separate points in time, or equivalently as being unchanged throughout each nonzero region of time.
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