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nonerosive

nonerosive adjective: not erosive.

Adjective

nonerosive (not comparable)

  1. Not erosive.
    • The blue clay while under water is "soft and very easily eroded," according to a report by Lieutenant Rees, and "nonerosive, very difficult of removal by any process" according to the contractor.1901 June 8, The Engineering Record, volume 43, number 23, page 540
    • Immune-mediated polyarthritis is classified as either erosive or nonerosive on the basis of the presence or absence of radiographically evident joint destruction.2014, Richard W. Nelson, Small Animal Internal Medicine, page 1117

Origin of nonerosive

From non- + erosive.

Questions about nonerosive

What does nonerosive mean?
Nonerosive means not erosive.
What part of speech is nonerosive?
Nonerosive is an adjective.

Words near nonerosive in the dictionary

  1. noneroded
  2. nonerodible
  3. noneroding
  4. nonerosion
  5. nonerosional
  6. nonerosive
  7. nonerotic
  8. nonerotica
  9. nonerotically
  10. nonerratic
  11. nonerroneous

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