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Etymology

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From non- +‎ face.

Noun

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nonface (plural nonfaces)

  1. That which is not a face (especially in computer face-recognition software).
    • 2007 February 13, Elizabeth Svoboda, “Faces, Faces Everywhere”, in New York Times[1]:
      As the computer amassed the information, it was able to discover relationships that were of great significance to almost all faces, but very few nonfaces.

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