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nonpreservation

nonpreservation noun: failure to preserve or be preserved.

Noun

nonpreservation (uncountable)

  1. Failure to preserve or be preserved
    • We consider a hypothesis of missing diversity plausible if the probability of complete nonpreservation of the group is at least 0.5.1999 February 26, Mike Foote et al., “Evolutionary and Preservational Constraints on Origins of Biologic Groups: Divergence Times of Eutherian Mammals”, in Science, volume 283, number 5406, →DOI...

Origin of nonpreservation

From non- + preservation.

Questions about nonpreservation

What does nonpreservation mean?
Nonpreservation means failure to preserve or be preserved.
What part of speech is nonpreservation?
Nonpreservation is a noun.

Words near nonpreservation in the dictionary

  1. nonpresent
  2. nonpresentable
  3. nonpresentation
  4. nonpresentational
  5. nonpresentist
  6. nonpreservation
  7. nonpreserved
  8. nonpresidential
  9. nonpress
  10. nonpressed
  11. nonpressure

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