<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.</li><li>Synonyms: unconnected, individual, different</li><li>consisting of or characterized by distinct or individual parts; discontinuous.</li><li>Mathematics: (of a topology or topological space) having the property that every subset is an open set.</li><li>defined only for an isolated set of points: a discrete variable.</li><li>using only arithmetic and algebra; not involving calculus: discrete methods.</li></ul>