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nonmetric

nonmetric adjective: not metric.

Adjective

nonmetric (not comparable)

  1. Not metric.
    • But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed.2018 December 24, The Editorial Board, “Yes, Virginia, there is good news this Christmas”, in USA Today

Origin of nonmetric

From non- + metric.

Questions about nonmetric

What does nonmetric mean?
Nonmetric means not metric.
What part of speech is nonmetric?
Nonmetric is an adjective.

Words near nonmetric in the dictionary

  1. nonmethoxylated
  2. nonmethylatable
  3. nonmethylated
  4. nonmethylation
  5. nonmeticulous
  6. nonmetric
  7. nonmetrical
  8. nonmetricity
  9. nonmetrisable
  10. nonmetrizable
  11. nonmetro

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