discontinuity

From Glossary of Meteorology
The abrupt variation or jump of a variable at a line or surface.

Discontinuities are said to be of zero order when an undifferentiated quantity is discontinuous, or of first order when a first derivative of the quantity is discontinuous, etc.
See interface, front, surface of discontinuity.

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