nonattached

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ attached

Adjective[edit]

nonattached (not comparable)

  1. Not attached
    • 1991 February 22, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “The Ill and the Sick”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      To call it feminist is to imply that we should also imagine plucky, intelligent, nonattached, and resourceful women being torn apart, along with bimbos and cops.
    • 2001 February 2, Richard J. Fisher et al., “Control of Fusion Pore Dynamics During Exocytosis by Munc18”, in Science[2], volume 291, number 5505, →DOI, pages 875–878:
      The following day, nonattached cells were harvested by centrifugation and resuspended in growth medium at a density of 1 × 107 per milliliter.