false relation

noun

music a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part Also called (esp US)cross relation

It made all our explanations seem childish and untrue; the false relation was instantly exposed.

There exists such a false relation between the girls and the boys.

It is their false relation to God which is prominent throughout the remonstrance; and that being so, "my glory," in ver.

As for our former experience, we were in a false relation, and it made fools of us both.

The false relation they bear to snails is the most extraordinary thing of the kind I have ever seen.

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