nonempty
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- adjective
- /nɒnˈɛmpti/
- Specialized
- After the meeting, we had a nonempty agenda to address the main issues.
Examples
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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.
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The data set must be nonempty for the analysis to yield meaningful results.
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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.