nonsignificant
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From non- + significant.
Adjective
[edit]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[1]:
- 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
[edit]nonsignificant (plural nonsignificants)
- Something that has no significance.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
- The kinds of Ciphers (besides the simple ciphers with changes and intermixtures of nulls and nonsignificants) are many, according to the nature or rule of the infolding; […]
- 2013, Carol Lynne, Royal Blood:
- Morwyn will be too concerned with the threat I present to worry about two nonsignificants in the area.