Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

non-self

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.97 in modern English

Syllables: non--self
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of nonself.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Signs are inherent in the various aspects of the immune system which differentiate self from non-self."
"For the artificial immune system, the recognition of the non-selfs is classified into two types according to the difference among the non-selfs, and the two approaches for recognizing the non-selfs are inspired from the innate immunity and the adaptive immunity in the biological immune system."
"[W]e could at least begin to answer the question, What is self? by referring to some paradigm cases of selves . . . and some paradigm case of non-selves."

Usage

Inflected Forms

non-selfs (plural) non-selves (plural)

Questions

What does non-self mean?: Alternative form of nonself.

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