discordance








noun

  1. a discordant state; disagreement; discord.
  2. an instance of this.
  3. dissonance.
  4. Geology. lack of parallelism between adjacent strata, as in an angular unconformity.
  5. (in genetic studies) the degree of dissimilarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a disease or trait.

noun

  1. geology an arrangement of rock strata in which the older underlying ones dip at a different angle from the younger overlying ones; unconformity
  2. lack of agreement or consonance
  3. variants of discord
n.

mid-14c.; see discord (v.) + -ance.

n.

  1. The presence of a given genetic trait in only one member of a pair of identical twins.
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