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Word of the day
for August 4
discordant adj
  1. Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.
    1. Of people: disagreeing with each other; dissenting, quarrelsome.
    2. (also figurative) Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music), of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious.
  2. (geology, physical geography, originally US) Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.
    1. Of a coastline: having bands of different types of rock running transversely to the coast, leading to the formation of alternating bays and headlands.
  3. (chiefly genetics) Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.
  4. (healthcare) Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative”).
  5. (mathematics, statistics) Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative).

discordant n

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.
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