NON

not, non

(adverb) negation of a word or group of words; “he does not speak French”; “she is not going”; “they are not friends”; “not many”; “not much”; “not at all”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adverb

non (not comparable)

Obsolete form of none.

Source: Wiktionary


Non, a.

Definition: No; not. See No, a. Chaucer.

Non-. Etym: [L. non, OL. noenu, noenum, fr. neoenum, lit., not one. See None.]

Definition: A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.

Note: The prefix non- may be joined to the leading word by means of a hyphen, or, in most cases, the hyphen may be dispensed with. The list of words having the prefix non- could easily be lengthened.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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20 February 2025

INVASION

(noun) (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body; “the tumor’s invasion of surrounding structures”


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