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English
Etymology
non- + significant
Adjective
nonsignificant (not comparable)
- Not significant.
- Synonym: insignificant
- (sciences) Lacking statistical significance.
2009 January 30, Michael L. Anstey et al., “Serotonin Mediates Behavioral Gregarization Underlying Swarm Formation in Desert Locusts”, in Science:Locusts that received an injection of 5-HTP but were not crowded also showed a similar but also nonsignificant increase in Pgreg (median 0.38; P = 0.448), which indicates that this treatment was also insufficient to induce full behavioral gregarization.
Noun
nonsignificant (plural nonsignificants)
- Something that has no significance.
2013, Carol Lynne, Royal Blood:Morwyn will be too concerned with the threat I present to worry about two nonsignificants in the area.