incommensuration

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noun
  1. 1

    The quality or state of being incommensurate or contradictory.

  2. 2

    (minerology) A crystal structure where natural translation distances are incommensurate with each other.

  3. 3

    (physics) Incommensurate peaks in the spin fluctuation spectrum.