discrete variable

noun

1. a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.

Example Sentences

A few months before, a team of mathematicians and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania had produced an extraordinary report for the US Army, outlining the design of Edvac: the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer.

From BBC

The Americans planned to follow this with a more sophisticated machine that could run stored programs, and Wilkes was given an overnight loan of John von Neumann's seminal paper, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer, which explained the concepts.

From The Guardian