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  • adjective Not metric.

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non- +‎ metric

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Examples

  • That's 108.27 feet for those looking at it in less symbolic nonmetric terms.

    Come Ye: Poland's Big Jesus Statue Draws Pilgrims, Chafes Nonbelievers Gordon Fairclough 2011

  • Third, we completed the anthropological study of the human remains excavated during the previous campaign, focusing on the dental pathology and nonmetric cranial discrete traits.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Paleoanthropology Report 1 2003

  • We analyze craniodental nonmetric data using several different measures of biological distance, as well as a method for estimating group diversity using multidimensional scaling of distance estimates.

    Dienekes' Anthropology Blog 2009

  • They concluded that the average erect penis—regardless of a man’s race or nationality—was 5.5 to 6.2 inches long and 4.7 to 5.1 inches in circumference.2 Similarly, a United Nations study of penis size published in 2008 found the average man’s penis size to be 14 centimeters around 5.25 inches for those of us who are nonmetric.

    Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010

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