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incommensuration

incommensuration noun: the quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory.

Noun

incommensuration (plural incommensurations)

  1. The quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory.
  2. A crystal structure where natural translation distances are incommensurate with each other.
  3. Incommensurate peaks in the spin fluctuation spectrum.
    • 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.1997 November 21, Sudip Chakravarty, “CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Enhanced: Quantum Magnetism and Its Many Avatars”, in Science, volume 278, number 5342, →DOI, pages 1412–1413

Forms of incommensuration

pluralincommensurations

Questions about incommensuration

What does incommensuration mean?
Incommensuration means the quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory.
What part of speech is incommensuration?
Incommensuration is a noun.
What is the plural of incommensuration?
The plural of incommensuration is incommensurations.

Words near incommensuration in the dictionary

  1. incommensurables
  2. incommensurably
  3. incommensurate
  4. incommensurately
  5. incommensurateness
  6. incommensuration
  7. incommensurations
  8. incommiscible
  9. incommixed
  10. incommodate
  11. incommodates

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