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noncompositional

noncompositional is the alternative form of non-compositional.

Meaning of non-compositional

Adjective

non-compositional

  1. Not compositional.
    • Any natural language processing system that does not have a knowledge of non-compositional idioms and their interpretation will make mistakes. Previous authors have attempted to automatically identify these expressions through the property of non-substitutability: similar words cannot be...2007, Faye Rochelle Baron, Identifying non-compositional idioms in text using WordNet synsets
    Antonyms:
    compositional

Antonyms of noncompositional

Origin of noncompositional

From non- + compositional.

Words formed from noncompositional

Questions about noncompositional

What is noncompositional the alternative form of?
Noncompositional is the alternative form of non-compositional.

Words near noncompositional in the dictionary

  1. noncomposer
  2. noncomposers
  3. noncomposes
  4. noncomposite
  5. noncomposited
  6. noncompositional
  7. noncompositionality
  8. noncompositionally
  9. noncompostable
  10. noncomposted
  11. noncomposure

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