The business has some discrete operations within it that have embedded value, like Pepperidge Farm and Godiva chocolates.

Depending on the technology type drying is achieved either via a discrete operation or part of a process.

He has been spinning off discrete operations - like Liberty Media and TCI International - to enhance the value of those businesses.

In addition, its various hardware and services offerings would be consolidated into two discrete operations.

The brain processes information in discrete operations by way of some biological equivalent of on/off switches.

That was a completely discrete operation.

For an instant the discrete operations taking place inside him came together.

In theory, each task that humans can perform should consist of a series of these discrete operations.

This theory exploits the idea that each task humans perform consists of a series of discrete operations.

Traditionally, the progressive bundle system assumed that maximum worker productivity could be achieved by breaking down the steps of assembly into a series of discrete operations.