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dis•cord•ance



Pronunciation: (dis-kôr'dns), [key]
—n.
1. a discordant state; disagreement; discord.
2. an instance of this.
3. dissonance.
4. Geol.lack of parallelism between adjacent strata, as in an angular unconformity.
5. (in genetic studies) the degree of dissimilarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a disease or trait.

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