nondocking

English

Etymology

non- +‎ docking

Adjective

nondocking (not comparable)

1. Not docking.
   • 2007 May 4, Richard Goldstein, “Walter M. Schirra Jr., Astronaut, Dies at 84”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Three days later, the two astronauts lifted off, and in less than six hours they completed their nondocking rendezvous with Gemini 7 some 170 miles above the Mariana Islands in the Pacific.

   • 2009, Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins, Linux in a Nutshell, page 36:

     For example, some laptops have events related to their docking stations and keyboard lights that are not used on nondocking or unlighted laptops.