(a.) Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
(a.) Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(2) He implied that if Salmond lost the referendum, that would then expose different questions about the organisation and survival of the UK, where power has been devolved in, he said, an incoherent way.
(3) If the square arrays are superimposed spatially one sees random incoherent motion.
(4) Incoherent image formation in human eyes that have scattering eye media is investigated as a function of the particle size and the optical density of the scattering medium and for test targets that differ in form and size.
(5) Cho responded with a long, angry and incoherent email.
(6) We then aligned the edges again to produce incoherent motion and superimposed a sine-wave grating on the pattern.
(7) These results may be extended for imaging incoherent gamma-ray sources.
(8) Advantages of laser light compared to incoherent sources with passive filters are discussed.
(9) Amid the incoherent responses that make up a bewildering official narrative, the idea that the militants are funded by the government is gaining currency.
(10) In international affairs he has found the only posture more dangerous than belligerence – incoherence.
(11) His statements to the police were rambling and often incoherent.
(12) But there is a problem here: Mr Osborne's policies are incoherent.
(13) Now it’s time for clarity on the skyline.” Looming 160m above Fenchurch Street, towering over several conservation areas and butting into the background of most views of London, the Walkie-Talkie is perhaps the most egregious example of such incoherence.
(14) Numerous clinicians criticise the insufficiency and imprecision, and the incoherency of the analyses of biological calculations by the usual clinical methods and thus frequently avoid prescribing such an examination.
(15) A very inebriated Emin mumbled incoherently that "no real people" would be watching and that she wanted to go be with her mum and friends.
(16) These include the intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) model, the intravoxel coherent motion (IVCM) model, and various tracer models.
(17) However, in such a study the duration of consumption exercise an important influence because, in this regard, different personality profiles of the two drug-using groups come into play, the users of cannabis presenting a more incoherent picture.
(18) When non-identical binaural noise signals suddenly become coherent in the two ears, or coherent noise suddenly becomes incoherent, long latency binaurally evoked potentials (BINEP) are elicited which consist of P70, N130 and P220 components.
(19) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
(20) To listen to Gordon Brown this morning was to hear a babble of incoherent assertions, delivered very fast and with striking vigour and confidence, which in no way amount to an intellectual case for power.
Unconnected
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In particular, it is taken into account that the phospholipid membrane is composed of two layers which are in contact but unconnected.
(2) The notion of an unconnected unknown like him winning an equivalent prize in Spain was, he said, unthinkable.
(3) They possessed a range of absorption ability which was unconnected with HLA-B27 status.
(4) Perhaps surprisingly, he feels his choice of career is unconnected to either of his parents: it was just, he said, that he always loved to draw.
(5) Even though the reason for a reduced sodium pump function in essential hypertension is not yet clear, it may not be unconnected with the presence of an endogenous inhibitor or with genetic or diet-induced membrane defects, as previously proposed by other workers in this area of research.
(6) They may have some role unconnected with DIF signalling.
(7) If the carboxylic group is unconnected the retention time increases depending on the pka of the acid with increasing pH if no complete ionization exists.
(8) We conclude that the original findings were due to factors unconnected with the nature of the injected material.
(9) The secondary rise in CEA appeared to be unconnected with whether or not the primary tumor had been accompanied by raised plasma CEA.
(10) This unexpected result focuses two previously unconnected areas of research and suggests that integrins may have a special role to play in the defence of the gut mucosa.
(11) Other subjects were shown the same modes but in the form of parallel unconnected lines.
(12) An unconnected civil action brought against DS Beechey was settled in a separate legal process, the basis of which means we cannot comment further."
(13) These results demonstrate that unconnected CNS neurons quickly display at least some properties of excitability when cultured in a 3-D ECM.
(14) Perhaps it's not entirely unconnected that, in a period of enormous political uncertainty, the bestselling publications at the newsagent are reality magazines, and that documentary films are shown at the multiplex and non-fiction flies off the shelves.
(15) Through the study of an average of 291 serial sections of each recurrent tumor, it was found that four of eight recurrent basal cell carcinomas contained multiple foci of unconnected tumor.
(16) "The moment one is sort of made aware of that sort of thing it feels very… it's very hard to enjoy because it feels so absurd and unconnected to… how do you make use of it, or how do you channel it, or how do you even feel good about it because… because… you're patently aware it's not true."
(17) According to a review of the literature half of the cases are unconnected to classical psoriasis, whereas the other half is connected and mostly of (periodic) pustular character.
(18) After training, the relative depth thresholds for most figures approach those of the original unconnected parallel test lines.
(19) Moreover, a palpebral squamous cell carcinoma developed independently from the right lower lid and, unconnected with the epibulbar tumor, penetrated to the orbit.
(20) The essence of the concept has been to link a physically widely dispersed and apparently unconnected series of glandular structures by a common embryological derivation and their secretion of closely similar functional products.