nonvalue

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noun

That which is not a value (in various senses).

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounnonvalue (plural nonvalues)

plural nonvalues

  1. That which is not a value (in various senses).

    He needs to identify the crucial indispensable values to his life and distinguish them from lesser values and nonvalues.

    2005, Edward W. Younkins, Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond
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    Other systems have techniques to make it easier to treat nonvalues as 0 or another value; generally speaking, some automatic conversion to 0 is provided. Microsoft's MDX automatically treats NULL as zero in most cases […]

    2002, Erik Thomsen, OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems

Origin

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APA

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“nonvalue.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonvalue. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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