uninfluence

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noun

The lack or absence of influence.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

uninfluence1

noununinfluence (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe lack or absence of influence.

    Such experiment was devoted to reveal the influence (or uninfluence) of the terrestrial motion on the speed of light.

    2013, G. Rizzi, M.L. Ruggiero, Relativity in Rotating Frames, page 156
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    This result justifies the negative result of the well-known Lodge's experiment to detect ether drag by rapidly rotating a heavy iron spheroid, and also predicts the uninfluence of the rotation of the earth, the sun and the Jupiter on the velocity of the ray of light passing by their edges.

    1922, Japanese Journal of Physics, volumes 1-3, page 11

    Additional advantages of postmortem imaging are its noninvasive nature, the uninfluence of radiation dosing, the reasonably brief time of execution, and the ability to detect alterations that may not be apparent on traditional autopsies.

    2019, Giuseppe Lo Re, Antonina Argo, Massimo Midiri, Radiology in Forensic Medicine, page 40
verbuninfluence (third-person singular simple present uninfluences, present participle uninfluencing, simple past and past participle uninfluenced)

present singular third person uninfluences · participle present uninfluencing · participle past uninfluenced · past uninfluenced

  1. transitiveTo exert no influence (on).

    How a minute dose should thus affect a paralyzed nerve, while it uninfluences it in its ordinary state, is a phenomenon we cannot explain.

    1869, Edwin Grant Dexter, Conduct and the Weather

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verbuninfluence (third-person singular simple present uninfluences, present participle uninfluencing, simple past and past participle uninfluenced)

present singular third person uninfluences · participle present uninfluencing · participle past uninfluenced · past uninfluenced

  1. transitiveTo remove or undo the influence of.

    Indeed, this is one of the best ways to uninfluence people and lose friends.

    1961, Research Needs in Executive Selection: A Symposium, page 37
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    U.S. advertising agencies and businessmen were criticized last Tuesday (Feb. 10) for helping to "uninfluence people" in Europe and around the world, and for fostering the alienation people in other lands have for the U.S.

    1970, Broadcasting, volume 78, page 72

Origin

uninfluence · noun, verb

From un- + influence.

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