Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

Not conducting; nonconductive; not transmitting a fluid or force; -- used especially of electric current; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.

The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.

A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.

Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.

One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.

Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.

It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.

Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact.

One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.

Not contributing.

Not current or belonging to the present time. Opposite of current.

not occurring in cycles; not cyclic. Opposite of cyclic.

The edible plumlike fruit of the Australian tree, Parinarium Nonda.

A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.

Characterized by the absence of a decidua; indeciduate.

not crucial; not comprising a decisive factor in a result. Opposite of crucial and decisive.

not allowable as a tax deduction; as, political contributions are nondeductible. Opposite of deductible.

A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

not restricted to a particular religious denomination; as, a nondenominational school.

A failure to deposit or throw down.

Not hitherto described; of no recognizable type or class; odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.

Failure or lack of development.

Want or failure of discovery.

A coarse umbelliferous plant (Ligusticum actaeifolium) with a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region. Also called Angelico.

Same as Nones, 2.

Not effective; ineffective.

Not having elasticity; not able to be stretched reversibly.

A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation.

Failure of election.

A substance that is not an insulator (i. e., an electric); that which transmits electricity, as a metal; a conductor.

Not electric; conducting electricity.

Having no emphasis; unemphatic.

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

Not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance.

A thing not essential.

A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

The titmouse.

A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.

Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.

Not exempt; subject to (some specified) rule. Opposite of exempt.

The state of not existing; absence of existence; the negation of being; -- usually used with reference to existince in the real world, or logical possiblity; as, the nonexistence of vaporware does not go unnoticed long.

Not having existence.

not exploratory. Opposite of exploratory.

Not explosive.

A failure of exportation; a not exporting of commodities.

No longer existing; inaccessible through loss or destruction.

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

not fissile. Opposite of fissile.

not capable of undergoing fission{4}; -- of atoms or chemical elements. Opposite of fissionable.

Not easily ignited, and burning only slowly if ignited.

Neglect or failure to fulfill.

Not having or performing a function.

not sticky or viscous.

Not growing or living in groups or colonies; -- of plants and animals.

Not inheritable through genetic transmission. Opposite of inheritable, and heritable.

Not arranged in a hierarchy. Opposite of hierarchical.

not human. Opposite of human.

According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

Not having immunity; susceptible; likely to be affected with, if exposed.

Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.

Not importing; not bringing from foreign countries.

not indulgent.

not industrial; -- used of societies. Opposite of industrial and industrialized.

not infectious; --of diseases. Opposite of infectious.

not inflammatory.

Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.

not capable of transmission by heredity. Opposite of inheritable.

not institutional. Opposite of institutional.

not committed to an institution; -- op people. Opposite of institutionalized.

not integrated. Opposite of integrated.

not intellectual. Opposite of intellectual.

not able to be interchanged without changing the truth value.

a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes; nonintervention.

not sharing a common point; -- of lines, planes, or surfaces.

The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.

A vernier.

The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.

Nonjuring.

Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.

One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors.

not capable of causing death.

Not lexical; as, nonlexical morphemes.

Want of limitation; failure to limit.

Not depictable graphically as a straight line; not changing by a constant amount for each unit of time, distance, or other independent variable. Opposite of linear.

Characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.

not using a writing system; -- of societies, cultures, or tribes.

Not endowed with life; same as inanimate. Opposite of living and animate.

Not malignant, as a disease; -- used especially of tumors; as, a nonmalignant growth on the liver.

Not carrying on manufactures.

not using a mechanism. Opposite of mechanical.

not determined by a mechanical process; partly resulting from a creative process.

Not medullated; without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.

One who is not a member; as, nonmembers are not allowed in the club reading room.

State of not being a member.

Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

Not metallic.

not metamorphic. Opposite of metamorphic.

Not participating in migrations; -- used of animals that do not migrate. Opposite of migratory.

not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. Opposite of modern.

not monotonic; -- of relations between variables. Opposite of monotonic.

Neither moral nor immoral; having no connection with morals; not within the sphere of morals or ethics; not ethical; as, imagination is of its nature nonmoral; infants are nonmoral.

Not moving. Opposite of moving.

not being or composed of aborigines; as, the nonnative population of South Africa. Opposite of native.

Not natural; unnatural.

A nun.

Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.

Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.

Without a nucleus; anucleate.

A silly fellow; a ninny.

Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.

Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, nonane; as, nonoic acid, which is also called pelargonic acid. Cf. Pelargonic.

Any one of several metameric unsaturated hydrocarbons (C9H14) of the valylene series.

Not oxygenated.

Without oxygen; characterized by the absence of oxygen; as, a nonoxygenous alkaloid.

not parallel; -- of lines or linear objects. Opposite of parallel.