What's the difference between discordant and inharmonic?
Discordant
Definition:
(n.) Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
(n.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
(n.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
(2) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
(3) Discordance was found in three cases studied earlier, the two cases with low expression mentioned above and one cytogenetically normal case, which were now restudied with the new probes.
(4) Of 12 women followed through two pregnancies, 10 had elevated serum TSH values in both pregnancies, 1 had normal serum TSH values in both, and 1 had discordant serum TSH values.
(5) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
(6) The data on monozygotic twins further suggested that for most variables examined, the increment of environmental discordance resulting from the twinning phenomena was greater than the developmental noise that caused asymmetry within individual cotwins.
(7) The clinical and anatomic findings were reviewed in 17 patients with double-outlet right ventricle and atrioventricular discordance.
(8) Experts say they are encouraged that after months of simmering discord Xi and Trump are preparing to thrash it out at the so-called winter White House .
(9) This synchronization of dissimilar perceptions brings together disjunctive and conjunctive categories dominated by such coordinate conjunctions as "and... and", in the living diachronic discordance.
(10) Discordant segregation between COL2A1 and the mutant locus was seen in pedigrees with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, autosomal recessive spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda, hypochondroplasia, pseudoachondroplasia, diaphyseal aclasis, and trichorhinophalangeal syndrome.
(11) These results demonstrate that permselective artificial membranes can protect discordant islet xenografts from both graft rejection and autoimmune destruction for more than 1 month in an animal model that is similar in several respects to human type I diabetes.
(12) The authors present a report on two sibling with a nearly identical phenotype mimicking peroxisomal disorder but with totally discordant biochemical findings.
(13) The overall aim of the current study was to comprehensively evaluate the prevalence, impact, and health correlates of marital aggression in a clinical sample of maritally discordant couples seeking psychological treatment.
(14) These results serve in part to explain the discordant findings reported in other studies and emphasize the importance of carefully selecting the technical conditions most likely to give results that are prognostically relevant for individual patients.
(15) The other had left isomerism (quasi solitus) with an ambiguous atrioventricular connexion (quasi discordant).
(16) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
(17) Comparison of results obtained from one week to the next was evaluated in 57 test pairs; discordant data, i.e.
(18) In three patients, broncho-atrial discordance was diagnosed clinically by bronchial tomography and selective atrial angiography, and in the other one the diagnosis was made by anatomical study.
(19) Murdoch’s rise to the top of Fox prompted rumours of discord within the company, but he has said he does not pay attention to the criticism.
(20) Eighteen standard and three research scales from the California Psychological Inventory were used to identify differences in personality between twins discordant for smoking and in nonsmoking and ever-smoking twins treated as individuals.
Inharmonic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Inharmonical
Example Sentences:
(1) A final experiment, with a stimulus duration of 1 s and slower modulation rates, showed that listeners could detect incoherence for some inharmonic complexes.
(2) When the complex was inharmonic, performance was near chance at all modular delays, both for component frequencies between 1500 and 2500 Hz, and for component frequencies between 400 and 800 Hz.
(3) The second demonstrates that, for inharmonic sounds, coherence of FM has no effect on the phenomenon of modulation detection interference (see Moore & Shailer, this symposium) once within-channel cues (combination tones and beating) are masked by background noise.
(4) Preference for the root note shifted to preference for the highest note as the triad type became increasingly inharmonic, suggesting that the former depended on inference of a missing fundamental.
(5) Spectral noise levels served as an index of the inharmonic (noise) components present from 100 to 2500 Hz for sustained vowels.
(6) Each vowel production was analyzed to produce a narrow-hand (10 Hz) frequency-by-amplitude acoustic spectrum in which the levels of inharmonic energy, i.e., noise components, were measured in dB SPL over the frequency range 100--3000 Hz.
(7) In experiment II the fundamental frequency was fixed at 200 Hz, and thresholds for inharmonicity were measured for stimulus durations of 50, 110, 410, and 1610 ms. For harmonics above the fifth the thresholds increased from less than 1 Hz to about 40 Hz as duration was decreased from 1610-50 ms. For the lower harmonics (up to the fourth) threshold changed much less with duration, and for the three shorter durations thresholds for each duration were roughly a constant proportion of the harmonic frequency.
(8) This was determined by recording FFR to inharmonic and quasi-frequency-modulated signals.
(9) For inharmonic complexes, performance for the target-distractor combinations was equivalent to that found for targets presented alone, suggesting segregation of the targets and distractors into separate auditory objects.
(10) The present study used the same two-component stimuli to test the prediction that gravid females would better detect harmonic sounds in noise than inharmonic ones.
(11) Three different two-tone complexes were synthesized and presented to measure detection thresholds--a harmonic complex of 900 + 3000 Hz (periodicity of 300 Hz, mimicking the structure of the natural advertisement call); an inharmonic complex of 830 + 3100 Hz; and a second harmonic complex of 828 + 2760 Hz (periodicity of 276 Hz).
(12) For the inharmonic complex, for which there is no stable first-harmonic periodicity, the mean 'critical ratio' was 24 dB.
(13) These stimuli can be considered as an alternative to harmonic stimuli, since inharmonic components play an important role in sound analysis and therefore in the perception of sound.
(14) Females did not, however, choose the harmonic sound over the inharmonic sound in this condition, at the higher signal-to-noise ratio, or in either of the unmasked situations.
(15) Thresholds were measured for the detection of inharmonicity in complex tones.
(16) The forward-masking properties of inharmonic complex stimuli were measured both for normal and hearing-impaired subjects.
(17) The results suggest that inharmonicity is detected in different ways for high and low harmonics.
(18) The levels of inharmonic (noise) components were measured for the range 100 to 2600 Hz within each vowel spectrum and the mean of those measures provided an index of vowel spectral noise level.
(19) Specifically, for a group of three "naive" listeners, thresholds were measured for 3-, 7-, and 21-tone inharmonic complexes as a function of the amount of practice in a mixed-block design.
(20) For low harmonics the inharmonic partial appears to "stand out" from the complex tone as a whole.