unconf

a. Unlike. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not unconform to other shining globes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality or state of being unconformable; unconformableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Lack of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moral evil is an action unconformable to it [ the rule of our duty ]. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un`con*form"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*form"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nonconformist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Want of parallelism between strata in contact. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ With some authors unconformity is equivalent to unconformability; but it is often used more broadly, for example, to include the case when the parallelism of strata once conformable has been disturbed by faulting and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + confound. ] To free from a state of confusion, or of being confounded. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]