Discordance vs Discordancy - What's the difference?
discordance | discordancy |
A state of discord.
* I. Taylor
(music) Lack of harmony; dissonance.
(genetics) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).
discordance
*{{quote-journal, 2000, date=May 5, M. W. Martin et al., Age of Neoproterozoic Bilatarian Body and Trace Fossils, White Sea, Russia: Implications for Metazoan Evolution, Science
, passage=A linear regression through these 18 data sets yields an upper intercept age of 555.4 ± 1.6 Ma [mean squared weighted deviation (MSWD) = 0.10] and a lower intercept indistinguishable from 0 Ma, suggesting that normal discordancy is a function of recent Pb loss. }}
As nouns the difference between discordance and discordancy
is that discordance is a state of discord while discordancy is discordance.discordance
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Alternative forms
* discordaunceNoun
(en noun)- There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.
discordancy
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Noun
(discordancies)citation