Definition of non-u in English English dictionary
- not U; not characteristic of the upper classes, particularly regarding language
To speak of lavatories is U, of bathrooms non-U; to lay cloth napkins at table is U, to lay paper napkins non-U; and so on through a myriad of equally trivial examples.
- not characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use
- Non-Uniform Memory Access
- parallel processing architecture in which each processor has its own memory but can also access the memory of other processors, NUMA (Computers)
- non-union
- non-union in AM, use nonunion Non-union workers do not belong to a trade union or labor union. A non-union company or organization does not employ workers who belong to a trade union or labor union. The company originally intended to reopen the factory with non-union workers
- non-user
- abstention from using a legal right or privilege
- a non domino
- Describing a disposition of property granted by a party who has no title to it
- allegro ma non troppo
- Describing a passage having this mark
- allegro ma non troppo
- A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played allegro, but not too much so
- allegro ma non troppo
- A passage having this mark
- allegro ma non troppo
- Played in this manner
- allegro non troppo
- Fast but not too fast
- angelic non-determinism
- A notional ability always to choose the most favorable option, in constant time
With angelic non-determinism, any problem in NP would be solvable in polynomial time.
- de bonis non administratis
- concerning assets remaining in an estate after the death or removal of the estate administrator; remaining assets as distributed by the second administrator (administrator bonis non)
- de minimis non curat lex
- Literally, the law does not concern itself with trifles; expression of the rule that the law will not remedy an injury that is minimal
- exceptio non numeratae pecuniae
- An exception whereby a defendant can claim that the plaintiff has not paid the money to him and that therefore the obligation is not owing
- forum non conveniens
- A doctrine of law holding that a court should decline to hear a case if another court would provide a more convenient forum for the parties and evidence
- lex dubia non obligat
- A doubtful law is not binding
- non brewed condiment
- a cheap alternative to malt vinegar made from industrial acetic acid flavoured with caramel; found especially in fish and chips shops
- non compos mentis
- Insane; not of sound mind; not in control of one's self
- non constat
- It is not certain; It is doubted
- non obst.
- Abbreviation of non obstante (“notwithstanding”)
- non partant
- A competitor who has qualified for entry into a race, but fails to attend the start
And so on Friday evening, the Tour communique listed Bassons as a non partant.
- non partant
- Not starting; not participating
106 JOLY Sébastien FDJ FRA Non Partant (Did not show).
- non partants
- plural form of non partant
- non sequitur
- A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener’s expectation
- non sequitur
- A statement that does not logically follow a statement that came before it
- non sequitur
- Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises; a logical fallacy
- non sequitur
- Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence
Having a costumed superhero abduct the vicar was an utter non sequitur in the novel.
- non sequituri
- plural form of non sequitur
Claire Bowern of has encountered non sequituri, intended as the plural of non sequitur.
- non sequiturs
- plural form of non sequitur
- non sequuntur
- plural form of non sequitur
Fond of non sequuntur?.
- non-
- Prevocalic form of nona-
- non-
- Used in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed
- non-Euclidean
- of, or relating to non-Euclidean geometry
- non-Euclidean geometries
- plural form of non-Euclidean geometry
- non-Euclidean geometry
- Any system of geometry not based on the set of axioms of Euclidean geometry, which is based on the three-dimensional space of common experience
- non-Newtonian fluid
- a fluid whose stress at each point is not linearly proportional to the strain rate at that point; i.e. its viscosity depends on the applied shear force
- non-Witness
- A person who is not one of Jehovah's Witnesses
- non-Witness
- Not pertaining to or reserved for Jehovah's Witnesses
- non-agenda
- Not on the agenda; not of importance; not of current importance
They are wasting their time on non-agenda items.
- non-aromatic
- Describing any polyunsaturated cyclic compound that is not aromatic
- non-baryonic dark matter
- dark matter comprised of elementary particles whose composition is as yet unknown, but is presumed to be unlike normal protons, neutrons and electrons etc
- non-binding
- Not involved in the formation of bonds
- non-binding
- That does not bind the participants
- non-biting midge
- Any of various small two-winged flies, belonging to the family Chironomidae, all belonging to the order Diptera
- non-biting midges
- plural form of non-biting midge
- non-bonus
- Not pertaining to, or obtained via a bonus
- non-breaking
- Not generating a line break, as in non-breaking space or non-breaking hyphen
- non-breaking space
- A variant of the space character that prevents an automatic line break (line wrap) at its position
- non-breaking spaces
- plural form of non-breaking space
- non-commercial
- Alternative spelling of noncommercial
- non-commissioned
- Not holding a military commission
- non-commissioned member
- A members of the Canadian Forces that is not a commissioned officer; includes warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and privates
- non-commissioned members
- plural form of non-commissioned member
- non-commissioned officer
- A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word
A platoon sergeant may only be a non-commissioned officer but he's the one his men look to when the bullets start flying.
- non-commissioned officers
- plural form of non-commissioned officer
- non-compete
- Describing a contractual clause that prevents a person or company from competing with another, especially with a former employer or partner
- non-compete
- Such a clause
- non-contact
- Not involving physical contact
- non-count
- uncountable
- non-cut
- Does not bias by skill or ability, especially a team or club
- non-derivable
- Not derivable; uncapable of being derived
- non-detected
- Having failed to be detected; not detected
- non-determinism
- Dependence on factors other than initial state and input
Moving from a single-processor to a multi-processor system often exposes hidden non-determinism due to invalid assumptions about scheduling.
- non-determinism
- Being non-deterministic; involving arbitrary choices; necessitating the choice between various indistinguishable possibilities
Projection of an automaton almost always results in non-determinism.
- non-deterministic
- Exhibiting non-determinism; involving choices between indistinguishable possibilities
Non-deterministic bottom-up tree automaton recognize the class of regular tree languages.
- non-diegetic
- that does not occur as part of the action, and cannot be heard by the film's characters; background
- non-disclosure agreement
- A contract that enjoins a party not to disclose certain information
- non-disclosure agreements
- plural form of non-disclosure agreement
- non-doing
- A lack of effort or activity
- non-edible
- That cannot be eaten; not edible
- non-empirical ego
- Alternative name of transcendental ego
- non-empty
- Of a set, containing at least one element; not the empty set
- non-essential amino acid
- Alternative spelling of nonessential amino acid
- non-esterified
- Occurring free, rather than esterified with glycerol to form a glyceride or other lipid
- non-esterified fatty acid
- Any fatty acid which occurs free, rather than esterified with glycerol to form a glyceride or other lipid; usually as the result of hydrolysis
- non-esterified fatty acids
- plural form of non-esterified fatty acid
- non-event
- A situation which, contrary to expectation, turned out to be uninteresting, unimportant or unexciting; an anticlimax
- non-exclusive
- One that is not exclusive; general
- non-finite verb
- A verb form that lacks a subject, is not inflected by tense, aspect, mood, number, gender or person and cannot serve as a predicate
- non-flammable
- not flammable; not inflammable; not able to burn easily
- non-functional requirement
- A requirement of a piece of software, such as accessibility or portability, that is not a specific, measurable aspect of performing a particular task
- non-functional requirements
- plural form of non-functional requirement
- non-glutinous
- Not glutinous; without gluten
- non-goal
- A potential goal or requirement which is explicitly excluded from the scope of a project
That's a hard problem, but it's a non-goal for us here.
- non-governmental organisation
- An international organization that is not part of any government. Abbreviated as NGO
- non-governmental organisations
- plural form of non-governmental organisation
- non-governmental organization
- An organization that does not receive any money from government. Abbreviated NGO
- non-governmental organization
- A legally constituted non-commercial organization created by natural or legal persons with no participation or representation of any government
- non-governmental organizations
- plural form of non-governmental organization
- non-human
- Alternative spelling of nonhuman. (not human.)
- non-human
- Alternative spelling of nonhumans. A creature or thing that is not human
- non-humans
- plural form of non-human
- non-humans
- Alternative spelling of nonhumans
- non-imitation
- A state where a product or idea cannot be copied, usually because of copyright rules
- non-imitation
- Something or someone that is unique and individual
- non-integer
- A number that is not an integer
- non-intervention
- The policy of a state of not intervening in the domestic affairs of another
- non-ionizing radiation
- Radiation that does not cause atmospheric ionization; electrically neutral radiation
- non-league
- Playing in a division below The Football League, being amateur or semi-professional teams
- non-lethal
- Not capable of causing death
Because animals can become bait shy when they consume a non-lethal dose that merely makes them sick, it is generally recommended that the applicator pre-bait the animals with untreated bait.
- non-lethal
- Designed to cause incapacitation without causing death
Government officials think a universal malodor, or offensive odor, might prove effective as a non-lethal weapon.
- non-living
- Not living; inanimate
- non-luminous
- Not capable of producing light, but can be capable of reflecting light from another source
- non-maskable interrupt
- A hardware-level interrupt that cannot be masked by software, such as a memory parity error
- non-maskable interrupts
- plural form of non-maskable interrupt Special interrupts used to indicate the detection of a hardware failure
- non-member
- Someone who is not a member (of a club, institution, etc.)
- non-military service
- Service in a non-military organisation, instead of serving in the military. Service done by conscientious objector
- non-moral
- Not moral; unconnected with morals; having no relation to ethics or morals; not involving ethical or moral considerations
- non-native
- Not indigenous to a particular area; foreign; invasive
- non-native speaker
- antonym of native speaker: someone who has another native tongue then the language being used
- non-negative
- Of a real number, either positive or zero; not negative; greater than or equal to zero
Distances are non-negative.
- non-negative
- Of a real valued function, functional, etc. which has non-negative values over a particular domain D
For all x \in D, f(x) \ge 0.
- non-negotiable
- Not negotiable; not subject to negotiation
- non-newsworthy
- Not interesting enough to be reported as news
He felt the news agency's report was non-newsworthy.
- non-notable
- Not notable; not worthy of notice; not noted or distinguished
- non-null persistent
- persistent with finite expected return time
- non-official cover
- a cover which is not a position at a governmental agency (ex. posing as a worker for a humanitarian group)
- non-optical
- That does not use optics
- non-optical
- That does not involve vision
Schapiro elucidates the notion of a long concentrated vision by reference to a nonoptical experience.
- non-over-the-counter
- Not over-the-counter
- non-past
- Of a tense, not pertaining to the past; in particular, applicable to both the present and the future
In the phrases ‘I am running tomorrow’ and ‘I am running now,’ the main verb is in the non-past tense.
- non-perishable
- Not perishable; not liable to spoil
- non-player character
- A character in a role-playing game or computer game whose actions are not controlled by the player
- non-player characters
- plural form of non-player character
- non-profit
- not seeking to produce a profit
- non-profit
- A non-profit organization
If it were not subsidized, the non-profit would be bankrupt.
- non-proliferation
- leading to an end to the acquisition of nuclear weapons by countries that do not already have them
- non-rational
- Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason
Although some nonrational elements may be inconsistent with legal ideals, others—emotions and intuitions of certain types, imagination, judgment, rhetorical persuasiveness (considered below)—are fully consistent with those ideals.
- non-rational
- Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational
Indeed, the tirade against information in effect serves to justify the constriction of the area of rationality and scientific approach, in order to find room for all kinds of non-rational sources of knowledge..
- non-rational
- Lacking the ability to reason
But what of non-rational beings—the animal or infant-man of attuition?.
- non-rational
- Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization
In the nature of things there must be causes that explain why an industrial enterprise—mill, factory, foundry, dairy, refinery—is located at just this or that place, and not somewhere else. Some of these causes are non-rational, such as accident and caprice. . . . The remaining causes are rational and economic; that is, the selected locality is deemed to offer certain advantages in production or marketing.
- non-redundant
- Not redundant; not superfluous
- non-referential perception
- perception of an object without known points of reference
- non-replicability
- The quality or state of being irreplicable; incapability of being replicated
- non-rhotic
- Of an English accent: not pronouncing the written letter "r" unless it is followed by a vowel
In a non-rhotic accent, the word 'farther' is pronounced like the word 'father'.
- non-royal
- Not royal; not related to or of the nature of a king or queen
- non-scientific
- Of or pertaining to matters, which are not scientifically rigorous
- non-sequiteur
- Common misspelling of non sequitur
- non-sequitur
- Alternative spelling of non sequitur. (all senses)
- non-singular
- Injective
- non-singular
- Not singular
- non-skid
- Alternative form of nonskid
- non-slip
- Alternative form of nonslip
- non-smokers
- plural form of non-smoker
- non-spacing
- Of a character, combined with another and so not consuming additional horizontal space
- non-starchy
- Not containing starch or carbohydrates
- non-starter
- Someone or something who was listed to start in a race, but did not start in the race
- non-starter
- An idea or argument that cannot be sensibly debated
- non-starter
- Something that is not going to happen
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
- Alternative spelling of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- plural form of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
- non-stoichiometric
- Having elements that are not combined in a definite proportion
- non-stoichiometric compound
- any chemical compound in which the number of atoms of each element is not expressible as the ratio of small integers; normally due to missing atoms in a solid state lattice
- non-strict
- Not strict
- non-strict
- Of an inequality, such that it includes the possibility of equality
- non-striker
- the batsman standing at the bowler's end of the pitch
- non-terminal
- A non-terminal symbol in a formal grammar
- non-terminal
- Not terminal
- non-terminal symbol
- A symbol in a formal grammar that cannot appear in sentences of the grammar but may eventually be resolved into a sequence of terminal symbols
- non-terminal symbols
- plural form of non-terminal symbol
- non-toxic
- Not poisonous; nontoxic
- non-tropical
- Not tropical; not characteristic of or located in the tropics
- non-tropical sprue
- Coeliac disease
- non-vascular plant
- Any plant that does not have a vascular system
- non-verbal
- in a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language
- non-violent
- Opposed to violence
- non-violent
- Without violence
- non-violent
- Sentenced for a crime that did not involve violence
- non-volatile random access memory
- a type of computer memory that can be written to repeatedly, but does not lose its value when the system is powered off, because it is battery backed
- persona non grata
- A person who is not welcome, especially a diplomat in a foreign country
- personae non gratae
- plural form of persona non grata
- personas non grata
- plural form of persona non grata
- sine qua non
- a test used to establish causation in fact
- sine qua non
- An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient
...whereas some degree of political freedom is a sine qua non condition for contestation, democracy cannot be sufficiently defined in terms of liberties....
- sine quâ non
- Alternative spelling of sine qua non
- non-combatant
- one attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting
- non-existent
- that which does not exist
- non-resident
- not residing within a given jurisdiction
- non-associational
- Not associational
- non sequitur
- (Latin) "t does not follow", inconsistent statement, a conclusion does not logically follow from the facts or law
- non-woven
- A porous web or sheet produced by mechanically, chemically or thermally bonding together polymers, fibers or filaments
- non-woven
- A cover material made of materials other than cloth, frequently consisting of fibers bonded under heat and pressure to top
- non-woven
- A manufactured sheet' web or batt of directionally or randomly oriented fibers' bonded by friction and/or cohesion and/or adhesion' excluding paper and products that are woven' knitted' tufted' stitch bonded incorporating binding yarns or filaments' or felted by wet milling
- non-woven
- One interpretation implies that it could be any textile product made without spinning or the use of a loom This would include felt, as well as all knitted or tufted goods
- Non-infectious disease
- A non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease, which by definition is non-infectious and non-transmissible among people
- non value-added
- (Ticaret) Activities and costs that can be eliminated without reducing performance, function or value as perceived by the customer
- non-transmissible disease
- A non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease, which by definition is non-infectious and non-transmissible among people