inconsistency

inconsistent | American Dictionary

inconsistent
adjective
us/ˌɪn·kənˈsɪs·tənt/

inconsistentadjective (NOT AGREEING)

(of an argument or opinion) containing elements that are opposed and do not match, so that it is difficult to imagine how both can be true:
These findings are inconsistent with those of previous studies.

inconsistentadjective (CHANGEABLE)

disapproving
changing in character; not staying the same:
The team’s play is inconsistent – winning one day and losing the next.

Examples of inconsistent

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The discussion of these problems either seems to accept inconsistent results at face value, or favours radiocarbon ages over other information.
They suggested that the timing of the assessments, co-occurring risk factors, and maternal behavior may have accounted for inconsistent findings.
Direct contrasts between the two pression are inconsistent.
In the time pressured world of designing, even partial and inconsistent designs find value as launching points into unexplored parts of the space.
As a consequence, the search procedure backtracks to the previous search state and thus removes the inconsistent constraint.
After all the cases have been conver ted using linguistic terms, some inconsistent cases can be removed.
The systems can suggest minimal set of inconsistent constraints that result in that all constraints cannot be satisfied simultaneously.!
A level 4 explanation was one in which the participant distorted the story to make sense with the contextually inconsistent meaning of the key word.
Both of these results are inconsistent with the large-to-small view of metaphonological development which singles out vocabulary development as the catalyst of change.
The training data is first pre-processed, inconsistent data pairs are removed and a smoothing algorithm is applied.
Previously, the uniformity of the sintered sur face, which affects uniformity of ion emission, was poor and inconsistent.
They each have their own default interpretations; it is only in the presence of modifiers inconsistent with the default interpretations that alternative readings arise.
With regard to the latter two strategies, the evidence of effectiveness is inconsistent.
Several outpatient physiotherapy trials report improvement in various aspects of gait but the results are inconsistent.
There was incomplete or inconsistent reporting of data in the abstract/presentations.
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