Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective That cannot undergo mixing or blending.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not miscible; incapable of being or becoming mixed, as oil and water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capable of being mixed or mingled.
- adjective (Chem.) Not miscible; forming two distinct phases when mixed at some concentration; -- of two liquids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physics (of two or more liquids) that are not
mutually soluble ;unmixable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing
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Examples
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There are days when I think that the two entities or disciplines are entirely immiscible and antagonistic, and others where they seem not just to complement each other but to be, in a strange way, twin enterprises.
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I can't help but think about that sitting on top of something holding multiple layers of differently colored immiscible fluids, drawing from it and feeding back into it at the same time.
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When heated to magmatic temperatures, these clusters melt to form hydrosaline liquid that is immiscible with the silicate melt
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Plausibly, the Cu could have come from a small droplet of immiscible hydrosaline liquid (Lowenstern 1994a) trapped along with a CO2-bearing vapor bubble in the MI.
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He not only mouths a rhetoric of transcending division, but is himself a seamless genetic integration of what should be immiscible.
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The bubbles were too CO2-rich to have formed during cooling and shrinkage of the MI and the authors concluded that the inclusions trapped both silicate melt and an immiscible CO2-bearing vapor.
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You are still clinging to an essentialist notion of a "conservative/libertarian" politics that remains, in some way that you have failed to demonstrate, immiscible with certain political notions that have their origins (genuinely or putatively) in the left.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Topics in the November issue of GEOLOGY include: a challenge to the use of banded iron formations as markers for the rise of oxygen in the oceans; new model of changes in seawater composition over time; factors in the rise of atmospheric methane; unmixing of magma into immiscible liquids; and evolution of organic molecules on early Earth.
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Or perhaps a better word would be immiscible: for some of the best avant-garde art has precisely that oil-and-water-y quality.
Art Adam Roberts Project 2006
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Sex and the family become increasingly so immiscible as to begin actively threatening one another.
Modern Times Adam Roberts Project 2006
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