Definition of Piecewise

1. Adverb. In terms or by means of pieces; a piece at a time. ¹

2. Adverb. (mathematics) Throughout separate parts, but not necessarily throughout the whole ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Piecewise

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piecewise

piecen
piecened
piecener
pieceners
piecening
piecens
piecer
piecers
pieces
pieces of clothing
pieces of crumpet
pieces of eight
pieces of paper
piecewise (current term)
piecewise-linear
piecewise linear
piecewiselinear
piecework
pieceworker
pieceworkers
pieceworks
piechart
piecharts
piecing
piecings
piecrust
piecrusts
pied

Literary usage of Piecewise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Discrete Oscillation Theory by Ravi P. Agarwal (2005)
"Stability and oscillation theory for differential equations with piecewise constant arguments Differential equations with piecewise constant arguments ..."

2. Topics in the Geometric Theory of Linear Systems by Robert Hermann (1984)
"CONSTANT COEFFICIENT AND piecewise CONSTANT LIE SYSTEMS Consider now a Lie ... The Lie system is piecewise constant if the interval - < x < = there is an ..."

3. Analytic Statistical Models by Ib M. Skovgaard (1990)
"9 piecewise linear regression Let Y\ , . . . , Yn be independent normally distributed random variables with common variance a2 and expectations given by ..."

4. Proceedings of the Berkeley-Ames Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Control by L. R. Hunt, Clyde Martin (1984)
"one infers that V is piecewise smooth using standard properties of subanalytic sets. The purpose of this note is to describe two results, one negative and ..."

5. Optimality: The Second Erich L. Lehmann Symposium by Javier Rojo (2006)
"piecewise constant (left) and piecewise best simple linear or stepwise linear ... The piecewise constant GUIDE tree is shown on the left side of Figure 2. ..."

6. Dynamics & Stochastics: Festschrift in Honour of M.S. Keane by M. S. Keane, Dee Denteneer, F. den Hollander, Evgeny Verbitskiy (2006)
"Discrepancy of van der Corput sequences generated by piecewise linear transformations. ... Fredholm determinant for piecewise linear transformations. ..."

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