Mr. Tuttle's art is less a product of discrete stages than of accumulation.

The life cycle includes six discrete stages of development, and the lifespan averages about 37 days.

For the first time in the series, there are discrete stages.

Upon invention, the onion-shell-model was used by the authors as if there are definite and discrete stages in cosmological evolution.

Pipelining allows more than one instruction to be executed at any given time by breaking down the execution pathway into discrete stages.

Depict assimilation occurring in three discrete linear stages, which may on be the case.

As a result of changes in survival and growth ability, the balance of species dominance shifts, thus marking discrete stages.

Such an approach is useful when studying systems that process information in discrete (or semi-discrete) stages or modules.

Some Evangelicals see union with Christ as a discrete stage in the "order of salvation."

"We're the ones who insist on chopping complex operations up into discrete stages so that we can check them off, one at a time."