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incommensurations

incommensurations is the plural of incommensuration.

Meaning of incommensuration

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

Questions about incommensurations

What is incommensurations the plural of?
Incommensurations is the plural of incommensuration.

Words near incommensurations in the dictionary

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

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