Dictionary

discretization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɪsˌkɹiːtəˈzeɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɪsˌkɹitəˈzeɪʃən/ (Canada, General-American)
• /dɪsˌkɹiːtəˈzæɪʃən/ (Australia)

Etymology

Etymology tree English discrete Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English discretize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English discretization From discretize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, qualifier:cognitive science, uncountable) The act of discretizing, or dividing a continuous object or spectrum into a finite number of discrete elements
   • BLAZE Multiphysics has many features from: discretation, temporal resolution, user modification and post processing.
   • Analyses all required a planar mathematical discretization of a region containing a prescribed number of cells with prescribed orientations.
   • For extensional-stress resolving 'shelfy stream' models, differences between model results were mainly due to the choice of spatial discretization. 2013, Issues in Earth Sciences, Geology, and Geophysics, page 34:

Forms

Antonyms

smoothing

Deriveds

semidiscretization · rediscretization · ultradiscretization · discretizational

Hyponyms

dichotomization

Relateds

quantization · dichotomization

Translations (8)

pl dyskretyzacja (act of discretizing) · sv diskretisering (act of discretizing) · is strjálun (act of discretizing) · ko 불연속화 (act of discretizing) · ja 離散化 (act of discretizing) · fr discrétisation (act of discretizing) · de Diskretisierung (act of discretizing) · ru дискретизация (act of discretizing)