discommensurate

English

Etymology

dis- + commensurate

Adjective

discommensurate (not comparable)

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