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Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.

Neglecting or refusing to comply.

Not concluding.

To dissent or refuse to concur.

Refusal to concur.

Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases.

Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.

The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.

A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.

Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.

One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.

Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.

It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.

Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact. -- Non`con*ta"gious*ness, n.

One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.

Not contributing.

The edible plumlike fruit of the Australian tree, Parinarium Nonda.

A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.

Characterized by the absence of a decidua; indeciduate.