Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Incapable of conformity; not conforming.
- adjective Geology Showing unconformity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not consistent; not agreeable; not conforming.
- In geology, not conforming in position, or not having the same dip, with another bed or series of beds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming.
- adjective (Geol.) Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
conformable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not correspondent
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Examples
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Our arrival at the main salon was met with unconformable stares from a couple sitting at a round table in the corner.
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"I feel an unconformable pressure at my rear end..."
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"I feel an unconformable pressure at my rear end..."
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For a while he sat quietly in a job in Europe waiting to see if the furor would blow over, but the controversy made him unconformable and he retired.
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Be intangible and hard to catch; be secret and proud and inwardly unconformable.
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Be intangible and hard to catch; be secret and proud and inwardly unconformable.
O Rare Don Marquis 1938
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Huntington's Chorea, which usually appears to be a good dominant, although the last investigators (Muncey and Davenport) found some unconformable cases.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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Who henceforth would receive her save those, unconformed and unconformable, sentenced to sin in this realm of blackness?
The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Who henceforth would receive her save those, unconformed and unconformable, sentenced to sin in this realm of blackness?
The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909
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Who henceforth would receive her save those, unconformed and unconformable, sentenced to sin in this realm of blackness?
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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