discommensurate

English

Etymology

From 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$_{0.9}$Mo$_{6}$O$_{17}$ by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     In addition to the crystal lattice, we observe a coexisting discommensurate superlattice with wavevectors q = 0.5a* $\pm$ 0.25b*.