Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Discrete \Dis*crete"\, a. [L. discretus, p. p. of discernere.
   See {Discreet}.]
   1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. --Sir M. Hale.

   2. Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive
      clause; as, ``I resign my life, but not my honor,'' is a
      discrete proposition.

   3. (Bot.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually
      coalescent.

   {Discrete movement}. See {Concrete movement of the voice},
      under {Concrete}, a.

   {Discrete proportion}, proportion where the ratio of the
      means is different from that of either couplet; as,
      3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to
      16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to
      continued or {continual proportion}; as, 3:6::12:24.

   {Discrete quantity}, that which must be divided into units,
      as number, and is opposed to {continued quantity}, as
      duration, or extension.