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nonstale

nonstale adjective: not stale (in various senses).

Adjective

nonstale (not comparable)

  1. Not stale (in various senses).
    • Stale milk was preferred over nonstale by 68% of the panelists when used in commercial instant potatoes.1982, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Encyclia
    • This area tracks which physical volumes are online, and whether the physical extents contain valid (nonstale) data...1993, Open Software Foundation, Design of the OSF/1 operating system: release 1.2

Origin of nonstale

From non- + stale.

Questions about nonstale

What does nonstale mean?
Nonstale means not stale (in various senses).
What part of speech is nonstale?
Nonstale is an adjective.

Words near nonstale in the dictionary

  1. nonstaged
  2. nonstainability
  3. nonstainable
  4. nonstained
  5. nonstaining
  6. nonstale
  7. nonstampable
  8. nonstamped
  9. nonstandard
  10. nonstandard analysis
  11. nonstandard appreciable

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