nonunique
/nɑnjuˈnik/
adjective
- Not one of a kind; having more than one example or instance.
- The fingerprint pattern was nonunique, matching several people in the database.
- In a large dataset, many entries are nonunique and appear multiple times.
- The artist's style became nonunique as other painters began to imitate it.
- In mathematics or computing, referring to an element that can be identified by more than one value or key.
- The solution to the equation is nonunique because there are multiple possible answers.
- When the primary key is nonunique, the system may return several records for the same query.
- A nonunique index in the database allows duplicate values in that column.
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