discommensurate

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ commensurate.

Adjective

discommensurate (not comparable)

(physics) Not commensurate
- 2015, Ling Fu, Aaron M. Kraft, Martha Greenblatt, M. C. Boyer, “Origin of a Superlattice Observed in Li $_{0.9}$ Mo $_{6}$ O $_{17}$ by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”, in arXiv‎:
  In addition to the crystal lattice, we observe a coexisting discommensurate superlattice with wavevectors q = 0.5a* $\pm$ 0.25b*.

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