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  • adverb In terms or by means of pieces; a piece at a time.
  • adverb mathematics Throughout separate parts, but not necessarily throughout the whole

Etymologies

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piece +‎ -wise

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  • Since Version 5.1, Mathematica has offered general support for piecewise functions, both numerically and symbolically.

    Wolfram Blog : Splines Come to Mathematica 2009

  • In the above examples, each piecewise polynomial is defined on an interval with the same length and thus forms a uniform basis.

    Wolfram Blog : Splines Come to Mathematica 2009

  • We modeled the eating, lying, and standing dynamics of a cow using a piecewise affine dynamical system.

    math 2010

  • We formulate a mathematical model for daily activities of a cow (eating, lying down, and stand - ing) in terms of a piecewise affine dynamical system.

    math 2010

  • Since Version 5.1, Mathematica has offered general support for piecewise functions, both numerically and symbolically.

    Wolfram Blog : 2009 : January 2009

  • In essence, they consist of piecewise polynomials with local supports.

    Wolfram Blog : Splines Come to Mathematica 2009

  • In essence, they consist of piecewise polynomials with local supports.

    Wolfram Blog : 2009 : January 2009

  • Even though their algebraic forms look different, one can verify that the antiderivatives differ by a piecewise constant:

    Wolfram Blog : Mathematica and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus 2008

  • These companies were then broken up and sold piecewise, their pension obligations replaced with 401 (k) - type individual retirement accounts, many of which were entrusted to investment companies created specifically for this purpose -- thereby supplying a secondary source of investment capital for more leveraged buyouts.

    The proud legacy of deregulation 2008

  • The vertically filtered station data from each section are interpolated onto an evenly spaced latitudinal or longitudinal grid depending on section orientation at 0.033° spacing using a shape-preserving piecewise cubic Hermite interpolant at each pressure level.

    Recyclable AbathyThermograph Instruments « Climate Audit 2007

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