nonnumericalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

nonnumerical (not comparable)

1. Not numerical; containing data other than numbers.
   • 2003 August 12, John Noble Wilford, “String, and Knot, Theory of Inca Writing”, in The New York Times‎:

     But a more searching analysis of some 450 of the 600 surviving khipu has called into question this interpretation. Although they were probably mainly accounting tools, a growing number of researchers now think that some khipu were nonnumerical and may have been an early form of writing.

2. Not using numerical techniques.