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nonpattern

nonpattern noun: absence of pattern.

Noun

nonpattern (plural nonpatterns)

  1. Absence of pattern.
    • As opposed to the more strict requirements of non-repetition in nonpattern words such as those in (1), the term isogram can be construed more widely to capture the notion of any word in which each letter of the alphabet occurs exactly the same number of times (cf. Borgmann 1974).2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor University, pages 1-2

Forms of nonpattern

pluralnonpatterns

Origin of nonpattern

From non- + pattern. Piecewise doublet of nonpatron.

Questions about nonpattern

What does nonpattern mean?
Nonpattern means absence of pattern.
What part of speech is nonpattern?
Nonpattern is a noun.
What is the plural of nonpattern?
The plural of nonpattern is nonpatterns.

Words near nonpattern in the dictionary

  1. nonpatrol
  2. nonpatron
  3. nonpatronage
  4. nonpatronizing
  5. nonpatrons
  6. nonpattern
  7. nonpatterned
  8. nonpatterns
  9. nonpausal
  10. nonpause
  11. nonpauses

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