"But history has shown that these three auctions have been fairly discrete events."

A discrete event is the premium takeover: an offer to purchase a corporation's shares above market price.

Let be the lifespan which is not continuously increasing but set by when a discrete event happens.

It is not clear how this version of applying the analogy might be used to the check the rates of discrete events.

Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression.

System dynamics and discrete event are traditional simulation approaches, agent based is new.

A series of discrete events have helped to keep prices high.

He is correct to say that its importance is overblown, but only as a discrete event, in and of itself.

The conspiracy is held to be responsible for a limited, discrete event or set of events.

Unsurprisingly, most of the incidents came up as discrete events.