nonmatch
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nonmatch (plural nonmatches)
- That which is not a match; a mismatch.
- 2009 May 19, “The Right to DNA Testing”, in New York Times[1]:
- For example, if blood is found in the general vicinity of a crime scene, a nonmatch would not prove that a defendant was innocent the way a nonmatch of skin from under the fingernails of a stabbing victim might.