Roget's Thesaurus

#70. Discontinuity

Nouns

discontinuity; disjunction etc. 44; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap etc. (interval) 198; solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation etc. (periodicity) 138; dropping fire.

Verbs

be discontinuous etc. adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate. discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose etc. 228; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect etc. (disjoin) 44; dissever.

Adjectives

discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu [Fr.]; disconnected, unconnected; discrete, disjunctive; fitful etc. (irregular) 139; spasmodic, desultory; intermitting, occasional etc. v., intermittent; alternate; recurrent etc. (periodic) 138.

Adverbs

at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts; skippingly, per saltum [Lat.]; longo intervallo [It.].

Phrases

like 'angel visits few and far between' [Campbell].