"There's no reason to discard good data just because of the hypothesis that the genes of dinosaurs and birds ought to be similar," he said.

This removed the significant 20th century warming pattern of PC4, discarding data that produced the "hockey stick" shape.

On SVR4 systems use of may discard data.

The network will usually discard useless data but this method succeeds because it slows user downloads.

Hosts will only discard data if the presentation time for a packet expires.

After 10 days, they start discarding data.

To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data.

For example, a weekly tracking poll uses the data from the past week and discards older data.

Alternatively, a narrow window might discard too much data, increasing the chance for bias from nonrandom exclusion of subjects.

Since the original convolution discards data, some algorithms use additional data acquired at nearby focal points to make up some of the lost information.