Incommensuration
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Incommensuration is a noun meaning The quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory.
Meaning
The quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory.
More Meanings
- (minerology) A crystal structure where natural translation distances are incommensurate with each other.
- (physics) Incommensurate peaks in the spin fluctuation spectrum.
Example Sentences
To see how striking this incommensuration is, I plotted (see figure) the real part of the plane wave with Q = ( p [1- d ]/a, p /a), for a = 3.8 Å, with smooth interpolation between the lattice points.
Word Forms
- incommensurations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include incommensurateness, incommensurability, incompatibility, incommensurableness, incongruity, incompatibleness.
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