incongruent

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To prevent subjects from noticing that stimuli were incongruent, the A ≠ V condition was tested only up to − 12 dB.

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  1. adjective Not congruent.
  2. adjective Incongruous.

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  • To prevent subjects from noticing that stimuli were incongruent, the A ≠ V condition was tested only up to − 12 dB. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • For the incongruent stimuli, one of the two words is presented as audio and the other as video. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Some outdoors environments have wildly incongruent colour schemes, while indoors environments are composed of one muddy texture. —  Latest from PALGN
  • It was filled with internal contradictions, and it was incongruent with my sensory experience of reality. —  Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog
  • The three entities in the title may be incongruent but not to Mr. Ram, the editor of The Hindu. —  Dabbler
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  1. = Italian incongruente, from Latin incongruen(t-)s, inconsistent, from in- privative + congruen(t-)s, consistent: see congruent.
 

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/ɪnˈkɑŋgruənt/
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