As many of the numerical researchers, especially in the fields of civil and rock engineering, may have noticed. Among different branches of micro-modeling techniques, two approaches use finite and discrete elements simultaneously. One is known as Discontinuous Finite elements, and the other introduced by Munjiza et al, known as Hybrid Finite-Discrete Elements. While Going through the literature, I have noticed that the only distinction between the two methods may be the fact that Discontinuous-FEM has an implicit integration scheme; however, the Hybrid Discrete-Finite method uses an explicit one. Surprisingly, among the extensive amount of papers in this field, some researchers have used one of these names while they are using the opposite integration method. So what is truly the difference? are they literally the same and just called with different names??