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discrete
adjectivedih-SKREET
meaning in plain English
Separate and not connected to each other.
for example
A school has three discrete offices for different tasks.
Imagine you have three piles of blocks that don’t touch each other. Each pile is its own group, not mixed together—those piles are discrete. Why does it matter? Because if you mix them up, they’re no longer separate piles at all.