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nonfalse en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + false.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not false; true.
    • The instruction "brtrue" branches for any nonfalse value and is thus the preferred way of encoding tests against zero. 2002, Kevin John Gough, Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), page 37:
    • Forget about false modesty, not to mention its nonfalse counterpart. 2007 January 24, Kelefa Sanneh, “It’s a Deal: You Like Me and I Like Me Too”, in New York Times:
    • There is in each case a literal infinity of nonfalse representations that can be made. 1967, John R. Seeley, The Americanization of the unconscious, page 140: