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nonakin en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + akin.

Meanings

1. Not akin; dissimilar.
   • Parenthetically, it may also be pointed out that linguistic competence in a foreign culture goes hand in hand with another essential— a spirit of adventure, of near-romantic interest unknown or nonakin cultural styles and ways of life. 1973, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, page 226:
   • […] nonakin breeding stock should be substituted for the home stock. 1919, The Breeder's Gazette, page 1295:
   • If one admits the possibility of two akin or one nonakin substitution of nucleotides (see above) in each pair of key words (of which one corresponds to the "-10" box and the other to the "-35" box), then, […] 1989, A. V. Lukashin, V. V. Anshelevich, B. R. Amirikyan, A. I. Gragerov, M. D. Frank-Kamenetskii, “Neural network models for promoter recognition”, in Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Recognition, volume 6, number 6:

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