ADJECTIVE
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not performing or able to perform its regular function
a malfunctioning valve - not having or performing a function
How To Use nonfunctional In A Sentence
- One mutation, C282Y, disrupts an intramolecular disulfide bridge and renders the protein nonfunctional.
- Bogon: Something that is nonfunctional or stupid, as in, "I'd like to go to lunch with you but I've got to go to the weekly staff bogon. Live Wires
- The term, from his native language, implies a double entendre, meaning either closed form or a type of rice dumpling widely cooked in Japan, and in the latter sense is a nonfunctional artistic delicacy. Berks county news
- Conclusion: Insulinoma and nonfunctional pancreatic islet cell tumor are the mostly dominant in islet cell tumor.
- Because of the presumable nonfunctionality, pseudogenes have been regarded as a paradigm of neutral evolution.
- A crafter is selling this totally nonfunctional (but weirdly compelling) knitted power-cable on Etsy for $15. Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives
- What I'm more interested in is the term "nonfunctional" that Fitzgerald wields against Lethem's writing. "Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
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- nonfunctional" and harmful to the reputation of the U.S. as a global financial leader. The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
- He also said that mutations in non-coding portions of the gene, which control regulation, could also render it nonfunctional, which tends to push the number upward.