Hypertext Webster Gateway: "non"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Non \Non\, a.
No; not. See {No}, a. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Non- \Non-\ [L. non, OL. noenu, noenum, fr. neoenum, lit., not
one. See {None}.]
A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in
nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic,
nonsuit.
Note: The prefix non- may be joined to the leading word by
means of a hyphen, or, in most cases, the hyphen may be
dispensed with. The list of words having the prefix
non- could easily be lengthened.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
non
adj : (prefix) reverse of or absence of; "`nonhuman' is a negative
term containing `non' as a prefix"
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