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adjectivenonmetric (not comparable)
- not comparableNot metric.
But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed.
2018 December 24, The Editorial Board, “Yes, Virginia, there is good news this Christmas”, in USA Today
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nonmetric. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonmetric
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“nonmetric.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonmetric. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonmetric,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonmetric.
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