piecewise

adv

1. (not-comparable)In terms or by means of pieces; a piece at a time.

   “Near-synonyms: piecemeal, apiece”

   “One could even do the recount piecewise, starting with the most questionable regions.”

2. (especially, not-comparable)Throughout separate parts, but not necessarily throughout the whole.

   “automatic reconstruction of accurate, concise, piecewise smooth surface models from scattered range data”

   “theory of piecewise differentiable functions and, specifically, piecewise differentiable equations”

   “piecewise linear model which can serve as the base of any other”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Defined by subfunctions and subdomains

   “Our formula is not defined as a piecewise function, but rather as a single closed-form expression”

   “is a piecewise function but not a PLQ function”

   “a piecewise function that consists of a single quadratic term and a constant term”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable)Clipping of piecewise linear.

   “In piecewise regression we replace the concept”

   “we can get arbitrarily close to any piecewise function with knot locations satisfying”

   “In essence, a piecewise function over an interval”