If rock is modeled as discrete elements in a critical state, it is amazing at how far a single disturbance can influence the mass.
Then I made out more, thin strands that gradually separated into discrete elements, too small to make out in detail.
Above a few hundred MHz, it gets difficult to use discrete elements, especially inductors.
The input is considered a set of discrete elements which are distributed over some medium .
The bone that results occurs independently of the normal skeleton, forming its own discrete skeletal elements.
When all elements are properly coordinated, the discrete elements become almost invisible to the untrained eye.
As Derrida showed in relation to the sign, language is always already writing, a system of traces, composed of discrete elements.
He says tying color to discrete physical elements was crucial.
The problem is resolved if we stop thinking of colonial societies and landscapes as collections of discrete elements.
Landmark maps: discrete elements are 3D points sensed through range and bearing.