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Definitions

unconformity

[uhn-kuhn-fawr-mi-tee] / ˌʌn kənˈfɔr mɪ ti /

NOUN

anomaly

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aberration abnormality deviation inconsistency irregularity oddity rarity

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departure eccentricity exception incongruity peculiarity unorthodoxy

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conformity normality regularity sameness standard

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usualness

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usual

NOUN

difference

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change characteristic contrast discrepancy disparity distinction divergence diversity inequality variation

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aberration alteration anomaly antithesis asymmetry contrariety contrariness departure deviation differentiation digression exception heterogeneity idiosyncrasy irregularity nonconformity opposition particularity peculiarity separateness separation singularity unlikeness variance variety

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discongruity dissemblance unorthodoxness

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likeness sameness similarity uniformity

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conformity correspondence regularity

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alikeness

NOUN

irregularity

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abnormality anomaly malfunction

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allowance characteristic deviation dispensation eccentricity exception excess exemption innovation laxity looseness malformation nonconformity oddity peculiarity privilege quirk rarity singularity strangeness uniqueness unorthodoxy

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normality standard

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conformity habit regularity uniformity usualness

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custom rule

NOUN

unlikeness

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aberration alteration anomaly antithesis asymmetry change characteristic contrariety contrariness contrast departure deviation digression discrepancy disparity dissimilarity dissimilitude distinction divarication divergence divergency diversity exception heterogeneity idiosyncrasy inequality irregularity nonconformity opposition particularity peculiarity separateness separation singularity variance variation variety

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discongruity discrepance dissemblance unorthodoxness

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agreement compatibility conformity equality harmony likeness normality regularity sameness similarity uniformity usualness

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variation

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abnormality alteration change deviation discrepancy disparity divergence diversity fluctuation innovation modification mutation shift variety

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aberration adaptation bend break contradistinction contrast curve deflection departure digression displacement dissimilarity dissimilitude distinction diversification exception inequality novelty swerve turn

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departure from the norm

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agreement harmony sameness similarity stagnation uniformity

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conformity continuation equality likeness line normality regularity

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root source

Example Sentences

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It echoes James Playfair’s description of the “abyss of time” he glimpsed while viewing a strata unconformity at Siccar Point in 1788, when geology was first emerging as a science.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2019

An unconformity: At Mount Stimson, the rover identified from sol 980 a thick sandstone unit overlying the lake deposits, separated by a geological feature called an unconformity.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2018

She’s revising a manuscript describing an unconformity in the sedimentary layers of Mount Sharp, within the Gale crater, a record of the alternating wet-dry cycles on the planet.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 29, 2017

This unconformity was actually an ancient landscape surface on which sedimentary rock C was subsequently deposited perhaps by a marine transgression.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Disagreement -- N. disagreement; discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

unconformity

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