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- noun Failure to function;
inoperativeness . - noun mathematics, computing Anything that is not a
function .
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Examples
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The state of nonfunction before these organs begin to function is not incompatible with life.
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Papers are published every month that reports on function/nonfunction of non-coding DNA.
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If someone making this claim could find obvious differences between human technology and biology (design nonisomorphisms?), this would allow them to predict nonfunction in the exact same way as DI allows you to predict function.
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If someone making this claim could find obvious differences between human technology and biology (design nonisomorphisms?), this would allow them to predict nonfunction in the exact same way as DI allows you to predict function.
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Papers are published every month that reports on function/nonfunction of non-coding DNA.
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As I've been saying this entire thread, it does not matter that people are able to predict function/nonfunction.
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As I've been saying this entire thread, it does not matter that people are able to predict function/nonfunction.
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To answer the question we must establish either functions or nonfunction for a large fraction of all the noncoding DNA.
Junk DNA, Junk Science, and The Onion Test - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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The last things that go, finally cooked to the point of nonfunction, are brain and heart.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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The only mishap on this November day is the occasional nonfunction of a routine bodily function.
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