nonrepetitive
- adjective
- /ˌnɒn.rɪˈpɛt.ɪv/
- His writing style is nonrepetitive, as he strives to introduce new ideas in each chapter.
- nonrepetitive reading
Examples
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The artist created a nonrepetitive melody that captivated the audience with its unique variations.
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For her presentation, she used nonrepetitive slides to ensure that each part of her speech remained fresh and engaging.
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Only nonrepetitive items with a simple factor structure were chosen for the analysis.
Academic text (2014) -
Because the number of nonrepetitive pairs of stimuli assessed increases geometrically with the addition of each new stimulus, nine schools were selected to achieve an appropriate balance between the need for metric determinacy and the potential for demand artifacts in the data collection process.
Academic text (1991) -
Kuhn (2005) compared repeated reading, wide reading (i.e., increased amount of a single nonrepetitive reading of a different story or passage), and listening only on second graders' word recognition, prosody, and comprehension performance.
Academic text (2015) -
The fission yeast contains a central nonrepetitive region, flanked by centromere-specific innermost repeats that form the site of kinetochore assembly (Carroll and Straight 2006).
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
Happening only once and not again
Not happening again after the first time
Antonyms
How Repetitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonrepetitive = repetitive (transparent) = non + repeat + ive
The prefix 'non-' straightforwardly negates the adjective 'repetitive', and 'repetitive' is transparently formed from 'repeat' + '-ive'.
Etymology
Nonrepetitive comes from the parts non- meaning 'not' and repeat meaning 'do again'. So nonrepetitive describes something that does not happen 'again and again', like a song or pattern that keeps changing to stay fresh.