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nonempty

nonempty

1 3.9
Having at least one thing
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈɛmpti/
  • Specialized
: no vacío
  • After the meeting, we had a nonempty agenda to address the main issues.

Examples

  • Normally, when defining a topology by neighborhood filters, one would start with a nonempty set X and then define for each u that is an element of X a special family of subsets W u on X, as formulated in the preceding section. Here, instead, the converse way of defining is used. Both ways are equivalent, as stated above.

    Academic text (1998)
  • To give a simple example, there are three main axioms for real numbers: they are a field (addition and multiplication work), they are totally ordered, and every nonempty subset has a least upper bound that is also a real number.

    Blog text (25)
  • The box was nonempty and contained several useful tools.

  • The data set must be nonempty for the analysis to yield meaningful results.

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

Not containing anything

How Full

overflowing
32 3.1
full
∞ 1.0
nonempty
  • Specialized
1 3.9
empty
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

nonempty positive

Morphology

nonempty = empty (transparent) = non + empty

Direct negation of 'empty' using the productive prefix 'non-', so the meaning is predictable from the base.

Etymology

Nonempty is made of non- meaning 'not', as in nonstop or nonsense, and empty meaning 'nothing inside'. So nonempty means 'not empty', that is, it contains at least one item.