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What does discordant mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word discordant? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. not in harmony or accord
  2. harsh or dissonant sounding
  3. (public health) serodiscordant
  4. (geology) of a differing type of rock cutting across a formation
  5. (mathematics) of opposite sign
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Another result concerning handedness of the progeny of discordant monozygotic twins suggests that lefties are one gene apart from righties.
The boy tapped his laptop in time to the discordant music assaulting his ears.
Now, however, the vast lobby is eerily silent save a single discordant chord struck repeatedly by a piano tuner.
As you follow it along the street you begin to hear the cheeps and trills of other birds launching into a discordant chorus.
By frequent collision asperities were worn off, and a foundation was laid for the establishment of a nation, out of discordant materials.
The monazite crystals range from reversely discordant to within error of concordant to slightly normally discordant.

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