- a discordant state; disagreement; discord.
- an instance of this.
- dissonance.
- lack of parallelism between adjacent strata, as in an angular unconformity.
- (in genetic studies) the degree of dissimilarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a disease or trait.
- an arrangement of rock strata in which the older underlying ones dip at a different angle from the younger overlying ones; unconformity
- lack of agreement or consonance
- variants of discord