incommensurate

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For a sufficient deviation from half filling we establish the existence of local incommensurate order below a pseudocritical temperature $T_pc$.

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  1. adjective Not commensurate; disproportionate: a reward incommensurate with their efforts.
  2. adjective Inadequate.
  3. adjective Incommensurable.

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  • We must do this because the existing policy sanctions, maintains, and enforces second-class citizenship that is incommensurate with the ideals of American democracy. —  NetInfoWeb: Music & More...
  • That "not blinking", gut decisions, and adherence to core ideology which is completely incommensurate with knowledge or experience of an issue is something valued by the fundamental right. —  WNYMedia
  • The narcissist's grandiosity and sense of entitlement are equally incommensurate with his achievements.
  • For a sufficient deviation from half filling we establish the existence of local incommensurate order below a pseudocritical temperature $T_pc$. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We report a single-crystal neutron diffraction study of the incommensurate magnetic ordering that occurs in La 2 NiO 4.125 below 110 K. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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/ɪnkəˈmɛnsərət/
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