Abstract
A certain type of defectivity applicable to binary mixtures of uniform solids and liquid crystals is identified as arising from the possible lack of uniformity of the composite as a result of a misalignment between the structures of the underlying constituents. Various local measures of misalignment are derived for the case of a smectic-A combined with solids with discrete or continuous symmetry groups.
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