As a result, each service is built as a discrete piece of code.

Small, discrete pieces of information may have little significance in isolation, but when collected together, they can be much greater than the sum of their parts.

Do you think of them working together as a whole, or do they exist as quite discrete pieces?

One can wonder on occasion how a discrete, self-contained piece emerged from what looks like a whirlwind of parts.

And I think a lot of people would expect him to take discrete pieces and see if he couldn't improve his cash situation.

I broke the problem down into discrete pieces, each one requiring a solution if the whole effort were to succeed.

These resources are software components (discrete pieces of code and/or data structures) which can be reused for different purposes.

The Cançons i Danses were not written as a set, but as discrete pieces over a 55-year span.

So now, unlike traditional preservationists, who focus on drawing lines around discrete pieces of the past, neighborhood advocates are looking at the larger context.