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NOT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Negation of a word or group of words

Example:

not at all

Synonyms:

non; not

Classified under:

Adverbs

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 Context examples: 

Any bacteria that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Abiotrophia genus level.

(Abiotrophia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An artifact that results when an imaging agent is not absorbed or metabolized at the expected rate.

(Abnormal Uptake Kinetics, NCI Thesaurus)

"Don't take them off," I cried; "I will not stir."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Not existing in a specified place at a specified time.

(Absent, NCI Thesaurus)

Could not be a better time, Sir Walter, for having a choice of tenants, very responsible tenants.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The quantity of 260nm light that is not transmitted through a substance or solution.

(Absorbance at 260nm, NCI Thesaurus)

The quantity of 280nm light that is not transmitted through a substance or solution.

(Absorbance at 280nm, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used in patients whose disease has not gotten better during or after treatment with other anticancer drugs.

(ABX-EGF, NCI Dictionary)

I did not take any, but it was a comfort to know it was there all the same.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You would not if you saw him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)