disconformable

[ dis-kuhn-fawr-muh-buhl ]

adjective

, Geology.

1. of or relating to a disconformity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disconformable¹

First recorded in 1900–05; dis- ¹ + conformable

Example Sentences

Disconformable, dis-kon-form′a-bl, adj. not conformable.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

Facts of this description, facts previously unheard of but which could not from any known law of causation be pronounced impossible, are what Hume characterizes as not contrary to experience, but merely unconformable to it; and Bentham, in his treatise on Evidence, denominates them facts disconformable in specie, as distinguished from such as are disconformable in toto or in degree.

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