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nonproof

noun

Etymology

From non- + proof.

  1. derived from probō
  2. derived from proba
  3. derived from prove
  4. inherited from proof
  5. prefixed as nonproof — “non + proof”

Definitions

  1. A failure to prove something

    A failure to prove something; the absence of a proof

    • Here is another nonproof of the existence of God.
    • In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture[…] Dr. Stallings ended on a musing note:

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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