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Definition of Nontransmissible
1. Adjective. Not acquirable by inheritance.
2. Adjective. (of disease) not capable of being passed on.
Definition of Nontransmissible
1. Adjective. Not transmissible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nontransmissible
Literary usage of Nontransmissible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1895)
"... seizes upon the supposed fact and reasons, "If in a thousand cases an acquired
tendency is nontransmissible, any number of acquired tendencies is ..."
2. Reopening Public Facilities After a Biological Attack: A Decision Making by National Research Council (2005)
"... transmissible agent with low persistence in the environment would represent
a higher-order hazard to the community than would a nontransmissible agent. ..."
3. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Vickers T. Atkinson, William Dickson, William Heyser Harbaugh, James Law, John Robbins Mohler, William Herbert Lowe, A. J. Murray, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, Milton R. Trumbower, Richard West Hickma (1916)
"... but it can be differentiated by the absence of the blister that is characteristic
of that disease and by the further fact that it is nontransmissible. ..."
4. Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880 by Thomas Johnson Michie, Thomas Jefferson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan (1903)
"Future and Contingent Interests—Possibility of Reverter.—It by no means follows
that because an estate is contingent, it is nontransmissible : for ..."
5. The Selection and Training of the Business Executive by Enoch Burton Gowin (1918)
"... between him and his ancestors are such as cannot be accounted for by modifications
of a somatic origin, exogenous and nontransmissible in nature, ..."
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