nonregistering
English edit
Etymology edit
non- + registering
Adjective edit
nonregistering (not comparable)
- Failing to register.
- 2002, Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse, page 75:
- No one is exactly sure how he did it, but it is believed that either he positioned his feet on a nonregistering part of the scale or his valet stuck his whip under his seat and lifted up.
- 2011, Howard Fast, The Dinner Party:
- their impassive, nonregistering faces whether she spoke of the clean, pure influence of the Shaker movement on American art