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non-''militant adjective & noun (a) adjective not militant; (b) noun a non-militant person: L20.
non-''military adjective not military; not involving armed forces: M19.
non-mini''sterial adjective not ministerial; esp. not pertaining to (the role of) a governmental minister: E20.
non-''moral adjective not moral; not concerned with morality: M19.
non-''native adjective & noun (a) adjective not native; that is not a native inhabitant, species, speaker, etc.; (b) noun a person who or thing which is a non-native: M19.
non-ne''cessity noun the condition of being unnecessary; absence of necessity: L16.
non-''negative adjective not negative; Math. either positive or equal to zero: M18.
non-ne''gotiable adjective not negotiable; that cannot be negotiated, esp. commercially: L19.
non-net adjective (of a book) not subject to a minimum or net selling price M20.
non-New''tonian adjective not Newtonian; esp. pertaining to or designating fluids whose rate of shear is not proportional to the shearing stress: E20.
non-''normal adjective E20.
non-nor''mality noun M20.
non-''nuclear adjective (a) not involving or forming part of a nucleus or nuclei; (b) not involving nuclear energy; (c) (of a State etc.) not having nuclear weapons: E20.
non-o''bedience noun failure or refusal to obey L16.
non-''object noun & adjective (a) (a thing which is) not corporeal; (b) Grammar (the condition of) not functioning as a grammatical object: E20.
non-ob''jective adjective not objective; Art abstract: E20.
non-ob''servance noun failure or refusal to observe, esp. an agreement, requirement, etc. M18.
non-''occurrence noun E19.
non-ope''rational adjective that does not operate or work; that does not involve operations: M20.
non-or''ganic adjective not organic E20.
non-orienta''bility noun (Math.) the property of being non-orientable M20.
non-''orientable adjective (Math.) (of a surface) such that a figure in the surface can be continuously transformed into its mirror image by taking it round a closed path in the surface; not orientable: M20.
non-para''metric adjective (Statistics) not involving any assumptions as to the form or parameters of a frequency distribution M20.
non-par''ticipant noun a person who is not participating L19.
non-par''ticipating adjective not participating, not taking part E20.
non-parti''san adjective L19.
non-parti''sanship noun L19.
non-past noun & adjective (Grammar) (designating or pertaining to) a tense not expressing a past action or state, esp. the present tense or present and future tense; of or pertaining to a non-past tense: M20.
non-''patrial noun & adjective (designating) a person who is not a patrial L20.
non-''paying noun failure or refusal to pay, non-payment LME.
non-''payment noun failure or refusal to pay; the condition of not being paid: LME.
non-per''ception noun lack of perception; failure to perceive: L17.
non-per''formance noun failure or refusal to perform or fulfil a condition, promise, etc.; the state of not being performed: E16.
non-per''forming noun & adjective (a) noun failure or refusal to perform; (b) adjective not performing or functioning; (of an investment, loan, etc.) producing no income: LME.
non-peri''odic adjective not periodic; aperiodic: M19.
non-per''sistent adjective (Biology) that does not persist (esp. in the environment, an organism, etc.); spec. (of a plant virus) carried briefly in the stylets of an insect vector: M20.
non-''person noun a person regarded as non-existent or unimportant, or as having no rights; an ignored, humiliated, or forgotten person: M20.
non-''personal adjective & noun (a) adjective not personal; (b) noun a non-personal thing; spec. (Grammar) an impersonal pronoun: E20.
non-''physical adjective L19.
non-''physically adverb M20.
non-''playing adjective not playing or taking part, esp. in a sporting contest L19.
non-''plural noun & adjective (a) noun the fact or condition of being only one in number; (b) adjective (Grammar) not in the plural form: M20.
non-''poisonous adjective (esp. of a substance) not poisonous L19.
non-polar adjective (Physics & Chemistry) not polar; spec. having no electric dipole moment: L19.
non-po''litical adjective & noun (a) adjective not political; not involved in politics; (b) noun a non-political person: M19.
non-''porous adjective (esp. of a substance) not porous M19.
non-''positive adjective (Math.) either negative or equal to zero M20.
non-pre''scription adjective (of a medicine) available for sale or purchase without a prescription; designating such sale or purchase: L20.
non-''pressure adjective involving or designed for operation at normal (air) pressure; characterized by a lack of pressure: M20.
non-''printing adjective that does not print M20.
non-pro''ductive adjective E20.
non-pro''fessional adjective & noun (a) adjective not professional; esp. (of a person) not belonging to or connected with a profession; (b) noun a non-professional person: E19.
non-pro''ficiency noun failure to make progress or improve L16.
non-''profit adjective not involving or making a profit;
non-profit-making, (of an enterprise etc.) not conducted primarily to make a profit: M20.
non-prolife''ration noun the prevention of an increase in something, esp. in the possession of nuclear weapons M20.
non-pro''prietary adjective not privately owned; (of a name, term, etc.) not proprietary, generic: M20.
non-pro''vided adjective (chiefly Hist.) (of a public elementary school) not provided by a local education authority E20.
non-''racial adjective not involving race or racial factors E20.
non-radio''active adjective M20.
non-''random adjective not random, ordered randomly M20.
non-''randomly adverb L20.
non-''randomness noun M20.
non-''rational adjective L19.
non-ratio''nality noun E20.
non-''reader noun a person who does not or who cannot read M20.
non-re''ducing adjective (Chemistry) (of a sugar) that does not reduce test solutions containing copper (II) salts (cf. REDUCING ppl adjective) M20.
non-refe''rential adjective not referential, without reference to anything; not indicating a referent or having a referent as object: E20.
non-re''flexive adjective (a) Grammar not reflexive; (b) Philosophy (of a relation) possibly but not necessarily holding between a thing and itself: M20.
non-regardance noun (rare, Shakes.) failure or refusal to regard something: only in E17.
non-''regent noun (now Hist.) chiefly at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, a master of arts not responsible for presiding over disputations, one who is not a regent LME.
non-regu''lation adjective not regulation; Hist. designating Indian provinces not having the ordinary laws in force: M19.
non-re''sistance noun failure or refusal to resist, lack of resistance (to); spec. the practice or principle of not resisting authority, even when unjustly exercised: LME.
non-re''sistant adjective & noun (a) adjective not resistant; of or pertaining to non-resistance; (b) noun a person who does not resist; spec. an advocate or follower of non-resistance: E18.
non-re''sisting adjective not resisting, non-resistant E18.
non-re''strictive adjective not restrictive; Grammar designating a word, phrase, or clause not restricting or limiting the meaning of the word or words to which it is added: E20.
nonre''ward noun (Psychology) (in learning experiments) deliberate withholding of an expected reward M20.
non-''rhotic adjective (Phonetics) relating to or designating a dialect in which r is pronounced in pre-vocalic position only L20.
non-''rigid adjective & noun (a) adjective (esp. of a material) not rigid; spec. (of an airship) having no framework to support the envelope; (b) noun a non-rigid airship: E20.
non-''scene adjective (of a homosexual) not inclined to participate in the social environment frequented predominantly by other homosexuals L20.
non-scien''tific adjective not scientific; not involving science or scientific methods: M19.
non-''scientist noun M20.
non-se''cretor noun a person whose saliva and other secretions do not contain blood-group antigens M20.
non-sec''tarian adjective M19.
non-seg''mental adjective that does not fall within certain defined segments M20.
non-se''lective adjective E20.
non-''sensible adjective M19.
non-''sensitive noun & adjective (a) noun a person who or thing which is not sensitive; (b) adjective not sensitive: E17.
non-''sequence noun (Geology) an interruption in the deposition of adjacent strata inferred from a gap in the fossil record E20.
non-''sexist adjective L20.
non-''sexual adjective not based on or involving sex M19.
non-''sexually adverb L19.
non-sig''nificance noun the state of being non-significant M19.
non-sig''nificant noun & adjective (a) noun (long rare or obsolete) something that is not significant; (b) adjective not significant: E17.
non-''skid adjective & noun (a) adjective that does not skid, that is designed to prevent skidding; (b) noun a non-skid object, substance, etc., esp. a non-skid tyre: E20.
non-''slip adjective that does not slip, that is designed to prevent slipping E20.
non-''smoker noun (a) a person who does not smoke; (b) colloq. a train compartment etc. in which smoking is forbidden: M19.
non-''smoking adjective (a) designating a train compartment etc. in which smoking is forbidden; (b) designating or pertaining to a person who does not smoke: L19.
non-''soluble adjective (esp. of a substance) not soluble L20.
non-''solvency noun (long rare or obsolete) failure or inability to pay what one owes; insolvency: E18.
non-''specialist adjective & noun (a person who is) not a specialist, esp. in a particular subject: E20.
non-spe''cific adjective not specific; not restricted in extent, effect, etc.: M20.
non-''standard adjective (a) not standard; spec. (of language) containing features which are widely used but generally considered incorrect; (b) Math. involving infinitesimals and infinities, as quantities which are not defined in the real number system but can be rigorously accommodated in a model which includes that system: E20.
non-''starter noun (a) a person who or thing which does not start; esp. a person or animal failing to start in a race or other contest; (b) a person or thing unlikely to succeed or be effective; an impracticable idea: M19.
non-''stellar adjective that is not or does not appear to be a star E20.
non-''stick adjective that does not stick, (esp. of a cooking utensil) that is designed to prevent sticking M20.
non-stoichio''metric adjective (Chemistry) containing or representing atoms of different elements in numbers that do not bear a simple integral ratio to one another or are not in the ratio expected from an ideal formula M20.
non-''stop adjective, noun, & adverb (a) adjective that does not stop; (of a train etc.) not stopping at intermediate places; (of a journey etc.) made or done without break; (of a variety show etc.) having no interval between the various acts; (b) noun a non-stop train; a non-stop journey; (c) adverb without stopping or pausing: E20.
non-sub''scriber noun (a) a person failing or refusing to subscribe to an undertaking, a religious creed, etc.; Scottish History a person who was not a subscriber to the National Covenant of 1638; (b) a person who does not pay a subscription: L16.
non-sub''scribing noun the action or practice of a non-subscriber M17.
non-sub''stantial adjective (chiefly Philosophy) not substantial, lacking substance L19.
non-suc''cess noun lack of success M17.
non-suc''cessful adjective M19.
non-''summons noun (Law, chiefly Hist.) failure to serve a summons in due time M17.
non-''swimmer noun a person who does not or who cannot swim E20.
non-sy''llabic adjective & noun (Linguistics) (a) adjective asyllabic; spec. designating a speech sound not constituting the peak sonority of a syllable; (b) noun a non-syllabic speech sound: M19.
non-''technical adjective not technical; without technical knowledge: M19.
non-term noun the time of vacation between two terms; the end of term; gen. a period of inaction: E17-E19.
non-the''matic adjective (a) = ATHEMATIC adjective 1, 2; (b) not conveying new information; rhematic: M20.
non-''toxic adjective M20.
non-trans''ferable adjective that may not be transferred M19.
non-''treaty adjective & noun (N. Amer., chiefly Hist.) (a) adjective of or pertaining to an American Indian person or people not subject to a treaty made with the Government; (b) noun a non-treaty American Indian: L19.
non-''trivial adjective not trivial; significant; spec. in Math., such that not all variables or terms are zero: E20.
non-''trivially adverb M20.
non-''tropical adjective characteristic of or occurring in regions outside the tropics;
non-tropical sprue, coeliac disease: L20.
non-''uniform adjective L19.
non-uni''formity noun E20.
non-''union noun & adjective (a) noun failure or refusal to unite; (b) adjective not belonging to a trade union; not done or produced by members of a trade union: M19.
non-''unionist adjective & noun (of or designating) a person not belonging to a trade union M19.
non-''unionize verb trans. make non-union in character; not bring under trade-union organization and rules (freq. as
non-unionized ppl adjective): E20.
non-u''nited adjective (rare) designating that part of the Greek Orthodox Church not in union with Rome L18.
non-''usage noun cessation of the use of something; non-use: M16.
non-''use noun failure or refusal to use something M16.
non-''user noun [-ER4] Law neglect to use a right, by which it may be lost M17.
non-u''tility adjective (esp. of clothing) not utility, not for utility: M20.
non-''vanishing adjective (Math. & Physics) not zero, not becoming zero E20.
non-''vascular adjective (Anatomy) not consisting of, containing, or involving vessels (esp. blood-vessels) M19.
non-''verbal adjective (a) not using or including words or speech; unskilful in the use of words or speech; (b) not using or including a verb; not constituting a verbal form: E20.
non-''verbalized adjective M20.
non-''verbally adverb M20.
non-''viable adjective not viable, inviable L19.
non-''vintage adjective (of wine etc.) not vintage M20.
non-''violence noun avoidance of the use of violence, esp. as a principle E20.
non-''violent adjective characterized by, believing in, or practising non-violence E20.
non-''violently adverb M20.
non-''volatile adjective (esp. of a substance) not volatile M19.
non-vola''tility noun the property of being non-volatile M20.
non-''voter noun a person who does not vote or who has no vote L19.
non-''voting adjective not voting or not having a vote L19.
non-''white adjective & noun (a person who is) not white; E20.
non-word noun an unrecorded or unused word M20.
non-''worker noun a person who does not work or who is out of work M19.
non-''working ppl adjective M19.
non-''woven adjective & noun (a) adjective (of a fabric etc.) not woven; (b) noun a non-woven fabric etc.: M20.
non-''zero adjective not equal to zero, having a positive or negative value E20.
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