Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonmetric

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-metric
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From non- + metric.

Questions

What does nonmetric mean?: Not metric.
Where does nonmetric come from?: From non- + metric.

How to pronounce nonmetric

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