| 释义 |
non-ˈplural, n. and a.
[non- 2, 3.]
A. n. The fact or condition of being only one in number.
1941N. K. Smith Philos. of D. Hume xxiii. 500 Tending to equate ‘unity’ with ‘the simple’, in the sense of the non-plural.
B. adj. Linguistics. Not in the plural form.
1958L. Krasner in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 81/1 When used to reinforce nonplural responses, both stimuli tended to increase the frequency of such responses. 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts viii. 184 The ‘singular’ forms are really nonplural rather than singular in the strict sense. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. July 7 Greenspoon noted that both of these reinforcing stimuli effected an increase in the emission of nonplural responses. |