Nonground vs Nonround - What's the difference?
nonground | nonround |
Not of or pertaining to the ground (surface of land).
Not having been ground.
(of a shape) Not round.
(phonetics, of a vowel) Having qualities the opposite of a round vowel.
(psychology, of a number) Having a sharp or precise numeric value; having not been rounded.
* 2004 , Amos Tversky, Preference, Belief, and Similarity [http://books.google.com/books?id=OCXAgA3sigIC], page 85:
* 2007 September 21, "Random Samples" in Science 317(5845), page 1657 [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5845/1657b]:
As adjectives the difference between nonground and nonround
is that nonground is not of or pertaining to the ground (surface of land) while nonround is (of a shape) not round.nonground
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Adjective
(-)- nonground meat
nonround
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Alternative forms
* non-roundAdjective
(-)- a round number (e.g., 100) was paired with a nonround number (e.g., 103).
- The researchers hypothesize that everyday experience teaches us that round (imprecise) numbers are usually larger than nonround (sharp) numbers.