non-word

短语

n. 未被确认（或收录）的词

词形变化

non-words 复数 non-words

别名

nonword

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any sequence of sounds or letters which is not considered to be a word, whether through an accidental gap (for example, phextapher-styphren) or through a systematic gap (for example, fssstpklyitnbkdv).

    语言学

    This linguistics textbook, like many others, precedes nonwords with an asterisk; for example, *narbletome.

  2. 2.

    Any term that is not among the words of a language as those have often traditionally been defined by nonlinguists (for example, having syllables, and having come from centuries-old predecessor words): thus, an abbreviation, acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, number written in digits (Arabic numerals 0 to 9), or logographic symbol.

    非正式

    In their glossary, they were using a convention where the words were in blue font and the abbreviations and other nonwords were in purple font.

词源

From non- + word.

来源：wiktionary