not continuous; stopping and starting again synonym intermittent不连续的;间断的;断续的 Women typically have discontinuous patterns of employment. 妇女通常有不连续的就业模式。
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘producing discontinuity’): from medieval Latin discontinuus, from dis- ‘not’ + continuus ‘uninterrupted’, from continere ‘hang together’.