discommensurate en · ADJ
Etymology
From dis- + commensurate.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not commensurate
In addition to the crystal lattice, we observe a coexisting discommensurate superlattice with wavevectors q = 0.5a* #92;pm 0.25b*.
2015, Ling Fu, Aaron M. Kraft, Martha Greenblatt, M. C. Boyer, “Origin of a Superlattice Observed in Li_(0.9)Mo₆O₁₇ by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”, in arXiv: