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  • 1Unconformity — Hutton s Unconformity at Jedburgh, Scotland, illustrated by John Clerk in 1787 and photographed in 2003. An unconformity is a buried erosion surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition w …

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  • 2discordance — /dis kawr dns/, 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… …

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  • 3difference — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Dissimilarity Nouns 1. difference, differentness, unlikeness, variance, variation, variety; diversity, dissimilarity, multiformity; divergence, dissimilitude; odds, incompatibility (see disagreement);… …

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  • 4river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …

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  • 5disagreement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of disagreeing Nouns 1. disagreement, discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity, incongruity, incongruence; discongruity, misalliance; jarring; dissent, dissension,… …

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  • 6Disagreement — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disagreement >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disagreement disagreement Sgm: N 1 discord discord discordance Sgm: N 1 dissonance dissonance dissidence discrepancy Sgm: N 1 unconformity unconformity &c. 83 …

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  • 7incompatibility — I (difference) noun animosity, antagonism, antipathy, clash, conflict, contradictoriness, contrariety, contrast, controversy, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, dislike, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunion, disunity,… …

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  • 8dissent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Difference of opinion Nouns 1. dissent, dissension, dissidence, discord, discordance, disagreement, nonagreement; difference or diversity of opinion; unconformity; protestantism, recusancy, schism;… …

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  • 9Île d'Arran — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Arran.  Ne doit pas être confondu avec Îles d Aran. Île d Arran Isle of Arran  …

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  • 10controversy — con·tro·ver·sy / kän trə ˌvər sēBrit alsokən trä vər sē/ n pl sies 1: a state of dispute or disagreement suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars U.S. Constitution amend. VII 2: a civil action involving a… …

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