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discordant

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Adjective

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

Noun

  1. A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.

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