Kesikli

Kesikli is a Turkish adjective meaning having gaps, broken, or discontinuous. It describes something that is not a continuous whole but contains breaks or interruptions. The word comes from kesik (cut, broken) with the suffix -li, yielding "having cuts" or "with breaks." In everyday Turkish, kesikli is used to describe physical forms, patterns, and processes that are not continuous.

In practice, kesikli appears in several domains. In drawing and typography, kesikli çizgi denotes a dashed or dotted line. In design and textiles, kesikli desen describes a segmented or repeating pattern. More generally, it can describe intermittent phenomena, for example kesikli yağış (intermittent rain) or kesikli çalışma saatleri (intermittent working hours).

In scientific or technical writing, kesikli may be used descriptively to convey non-continuous data or signals, though field-specific terminology often provides more precise terms. The adjective agrees with the noun it modifies and is commonly placed before the noun, as in kesikli çizgi or kesikli desen.

Related terms include kesik, meaning "cut" or "broken"; kesinti, meaning "interruption"; aralıklı, meaning "spaced" or "intermittent"; and kesintili, used in some contexts to denote interruptions.