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Definition of Nonideal
1. not ideal [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonideal
Literary usage of Nonideal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"nonideal solutions. The activity of a difficultly soluble component. ...
The simplest case of a nonideal soin, consists of a solid of only moderate soly. ..."
2. Is God Good, Or the Modern Job by L. W. Keplinger (1917)
"The strongest condemnation of wrong, injustice, oppression, and the various forms
of the nonideal, cannot be the product of that which is the embodiment of ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... for the nonideal acid-catalyzed exchange reaction may be expressed in terms
of transition-state theory as 1 = rate = kT/K*\ ft \7*/ (4) where r is the ..."
4. Technical Digest edited by G. W. Day, D. L. Franzen, P. A. Williams (1999)
"We have propagated the uncertainties above inherent to the measurement system in
a model of the nonideal system. The combined total PDL deviations are then ..."
5. The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle by Ronald D. Renard (1996)
"Because the poppy generates a lucrative product, growers on nonideal sites will
be tempted to cultivate it, often resulting in less than ideal harvests. ..."
6. Soviet Military Policy Since World War II by Richard Felix Staar (1986)
"... based on USSR data on blast wave propagation on a nonideal surface; US
height-of-burst gives damage radii to these psi levels that are 15 to 20 percent ..."
7. Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators: Workshop by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (2003)
"In addition, this compensation procedure can be expected to reduce the risk of
beam losses that may result from the nonideal conditions caused by the fault. ..."