Meanings
- not comparableNot capturing.
Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.
2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, page 10 - not comparablecomputingThat does not store its matched text for later processing.
Noncapturing groups can be used to describe repetition patterns or alternatives, without isolating the matching portion of the string in the value returned.
2011, Doug Hellmann, The Python Standard Library by Example, page 36Synonyms: noncapture
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveThat does not store its matched text for later processing.
Origin
Cite this entry
noncapturing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncapturing
“noncapturing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncapturing. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noncapturing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noncapturing.
Source: noncapturing on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.