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non-stop

noun

Meaning

  1. (travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
  2. A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.
  3. A linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.
  4. Without stopping; without interruption or break.
  5. Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
  6. Without stopping; without interruption or break

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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