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discontinuity

 noun
     
dis‧con‧ti‧nu‧i‧ty plural discontinuities
1 [countable] a sudden change or pause in a process
discontinuity between
the policy discontinuities between the present and previous governments
2 [uncountable] when a process is not continuous:
discontinuity in economic development
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