Nonroof vs Nonproof - What's the difference?
nonroof | nonproof |
A failure to prove something; the absence of a proof
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, passage=In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture
As an adjective nonroof
is not of or pertaining to a roof.As a noun nonproof is
a failure to prove something; the absence of a proof.nonproof
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*non-proofNoun
(en noun)- Here is another nonproof of the existence of God.
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