nonaddable

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Etymology

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non- +‎ addable

Adjective

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nonaddable (not comparable)

  1. Not addable; that cannot be added together.
    • 2011, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Waste, Fraud, and Abuse, page 297:
      For Par D, the agency is working to develop a composite improper payment rate, and for 2010 has four nonaddable estimates, with the largest being $ 5.4 billion.
    • 2017, Byron Belitsos, Your Evolving Soul, page 176:
      Personality . . . is unique in relation to God—he is no respecter of persons, but neither does he add them together, for they are nonaddable—they are associable but nontotalable.
    • 2020, Plato's Sophist: Part II of The Being of the Beautiful, page 146:
      Theaetetus and Theodorus together do not make up anything; they are nonaddable wholes.