discommensurate
English
editEtymology
editFrom dis- + commensurate.
Adjective
editdiscommensurate (not comparable)
- (physics) Not commensurate
- 2015, Ling Fu, Aaron M. Kraft, Martha Greenblatt, M. C. Boyer, “Origin of a Superlattice Observed in Li Mo O by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”, in arXiv[1]:
- In addition to the crystal lattice, we observe a coexisting discommensurate superlattice with wavevectors q = 0.5a* 0.25b*.