nondisruptive
- adjective
- /ˌnɒndɪsˈrʌptɪv/
- It would also be possible to selectively sample organisms of interest and perform real-time, nondisruptive population monitoring, such as measuring the spread of invasive and pest species, including those that carry human disease.
Examples
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During the coding of the tape for item three, teachers code the number of student off-task behaviors, both disruptive and nondisruptive, they see occurring.
Academic text (1993) -
Thus, the MSR(PM) bit is useful as a nondisruptive method of measuring the performance of specific threads of system execution.
Academic text (1994) -
Borders must be secure and immigration limited to nondisruptive levels.
Blog text (8) -
Simply having students take turns on a single computer will not work, however, unless the teacher establishes class structures that ensure all students will stay focused, attentive, and nondisruptive.
Academic text (2000) -
Alternating the seating of disruptive and nondisruptive students also keeps disruptive students away from each other.
Academic text (1992) -
This architecture provides significant performance and capacity scale while delivering nondisruptive operations by enabling transparent upgrades, system replacements, and performance balancing.
Blog text (3) -
The SPQ is intended to assess students' participation by collecting information on individual students on five subscales: Effort, Initiative, Motivation, Attentive Behavior, and Nondisruptive Behavior.
Academic text (2008) -
Flash and industry-leading nondisruptive operations provide organizations with the necessary foundation for an intelligent, immortal, and infinitely scalable agile data infrastructure.
Blog text (3) -
In general, an adaptive tendency emerges, a shifting amid disorder, toward those patterns that, for a time, are more able to dampen rather than amplify disorders to nondisruptive levels.
Academic text (1996) -
We strive to maintain a positive, nondisruptive shopping experience for all our customers.
Synonyms
A change that lets people keep working without stopping
Not causing trouble or interrupting what people do
Antonyms
How Disruptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
nondisruptive = disruptive (transparent) = non + disrupt + ive
Clear negative prefix 'non-' attached to the adjective 'disruptive', yielding 'not causing disruption'.
Etymology
Nondisruptive joins non- ('not') with disrupt, which comes from a root meaning 'break' and appears in the common word interrupt ('break in'). So nondisruptive describes something that does not 'break' the normal flow or cause a disturbance.