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Nonadaptive

Definition: Nonadaptive

Nonadaptive

Adjective

1. (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose; "dysfunctional behavior".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Nonadaptive

Synonym: dysfunctional (adj). (additional references)

Anagrams: Nonadaptive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-n-n-o-p-t-v"
	-1 letter: antipodean.
	-2 letters: innovated.
	-3 letters: adaption, adaptive, adnation, adoptive, anointed, antinode, antipode, donative, endpoint, innovate, pavonine, pinnated, venation.
	-4 letters: aeonian, andante, aviated, depaint, deviant, dipnoan, enation, intoned, naevoid, nonpaid, notepad, opiated, painted, pandani, patinae, patined, pendant, pinnate, pintada, pintado, pintano, pivoted, pointed, pontine.
	-5 letters: adnate, advent, anoint, anopia, apnoea, atoned, aviate, dative, dentin, detain, dipnet, donate.
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Alternative Orthography: Nonadaptive

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 6E 61 64 61 70 74 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-. --- -. .- -.. .- .--. - .. ...- .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101111 01101110 01100001 01100100 01100001 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#100 &#97 &#112 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 006E 0061 0064 0061 0070 0074 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4881806770678286758871

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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