Crossword-Solution: DISCONTINUOUSLY 15 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

But the movement is not perfectly fluid; for it is broken up into elementary pulses of ideas, following discontinuously upon each other.

Many of the organs of the body function discontinuously, periods of activity alternating with comparative repose; during the period of activity a greater blood supply is demanded, and is furnished by relaxation of the muscle fibres which allows the calibre to increase, and with this the blood flow becomes greater in amount.

But these act discontinuously; and in the intervals the shallower levels of life tend to close in and shut us off.

All evidence indeed tends to shew that on the contrary the bone-marrow performs its functions discontinuously, inasmuch as elements continually grow to maturity in the bone-marrow, as we have above explained, but they only emigrate at certain times as the result of chemical stimuli.

For example, when the direction is such that the projection of AB upon it amounts to one wave-length, the elementary components neutralize one another, because their phases are distributed symmetrically, though discontinuously, round the entire period.