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nonvalue en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + value.

Meanings

  1. That which is not a value (in various senses).
    • He needs to identify the crucial indispensable values to his life and distinguish them from lesser values and nonvalues. 2005, Edward W. Younkins, Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond:
    • Other systems have techniques to make it easier to treat nonvalues as 0 or another value; generally speaking, some automatic conversion to 0 is provided. Microsoft's MDX automatically treats NULL as zero in most cases […] 2002, Erik Thomsen, OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems:

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