Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

noncapturing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-cap-tur-ing
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

That does not store its matched text for later processing.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Noncapturing groups can be used to describe repetition patterns or alternatives, without isolating the matching portion of the string in the value returned."

Etymology

From non- + capturing.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non-

Synonyms

noncapture

Questions

What does noncapturing mean?: Not capturing.
Where does noncapturing come from?: From non- + capturing.

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