nonintegral
/nɑnˈɪntɪɡrəl/
adjective
- Not forming an essential part of something; not necessary for completeness.
- The committee decided that the appendix was nonintegral to the main report.
- In this recipe, the nuts are nonintegral and can be left out.
- The decorative trim is nonintegral to the structure of the building.
- In mathematics, not involving or consisting of integers; not whole-number.
- The student learned to handle nonintegral exponents in algebra class.
- Nonintegral values often appear in measurements like 2.5 meters.
- The solution to the equation was a nonintegral decimal.
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