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nonequation en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + equation.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Absence of equation; not equating things.
    • In this sense, the literary text saves the earth by disclosing the nonequation of word and thing, poem and place. Quoted in 2013, Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway, Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human (page 220)
    • It was in this way that the times of arabicization became involved in the issue of faith and works, of the equation — or nonequation — of the divine will and the human will […] 1991, Kenneth Cragg, The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East, page 66: