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nonattainment

noun

Etymology

From non- + attainment.

  1. derived from *teh₂g-✻ — “to grasp; to touch”
  2. derived from attingere
  3. derived from *attangere✻
  4. derived from ataindre
  5. derived from ataindre
  6. inherited from atteinen
  7. formed as attainment — “attain + -ment”
  8. prefixed as nonattainment — “non- + attainment”

Definitions

  1. Failure to attain a particular standard.

    • There's the 1993 [federal air pollution] study on ozone nonattainment coming up.
    • Carver County was designated as in nonattainment for carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in 1971 but was redesignated to maintenance in 1999 and 1997 for these pollutants, respectively.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonattainment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA