Piecewise Meaning
/ˈpisˈwaɪz/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advIn terms or by means of pieces; a piece at a time.
advThroughout separate parts, but not necessarily throughout the whole.
Sentence Examples
The function is defined in a piecewise manner on each interval.
They decided to implement the new system piecewise.
The mathematician defined a piecewise function on the graph.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ function was defined in pieces, so it had jumps in its graph.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The function was defined ____, with different formulas applying to different intervals.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English piece Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós Proto-Germanic *wīsaz Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz Proto-West Germanic *-wīs Old English -wīs Middle English -wis English -wise English piecewise From piece + -wise.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"One could even do the recount piecewise, starting with the most questionable regions."
— 2006 August 13, “LETTERS; Practical Method for Mexican Vote Recount”, in Los Angeles Times:
"automatic reconstruction of accurate, concise, piecewise smooth surface models from scattered range data"
— 1994 July 24, Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, Mark Halstead, Hubert Jin, John McDonald, Jean Schweitzer, Werner Stuetzle, “Piecewise smooth surface reconstruction”, in Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '94), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 295–302:
"theory of piecewise differentiable functions and, specifically, piecewise differentiable equations"
— 2012, Stefan Scholtes, Introduction to Piecewise Differentiable Equations (SpringerBriefs in Optimization), New York: Springer, →ISBN:
"piecewise linear model which can serve as the base of any other"
— 2013 March 9, Domine Leenaerts, Wim M. G. van Bokhoven, Piecewise Linear Modeling and Analysis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:
"Our formula is not defined as a piecewise function, but rather as a single closed-form expression"
— 2018 April 1, Ivan Matić, Radoš Radoičić, Dan Stefanica, “A sharp Pólya-based approximation to the normal cumulative distribution function”, in Applied Mathematics and Computation, volume 322, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 111–122:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ function was defined in pieces, so it had jumps in its graph.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The function was defined ____, with different formulas applying to different intervals.