• Nonregistering

    Origin

    - + registering

    Full definition of nonregistering

    Adjective

    nonregistering

    1. Failing to register.
      • 2002, Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse (page 75)No one is exactly sure how he did it, but it is believed that either he positioned his feet on a nonregistering part of the scale or his valet stuck his whip under his seat and lifted up.
      • 2011, Howard Fast, The Dinner Partytheir impassive, nonregistering faces whether she spoke of the clean, pure influence of the Shaker movement on American art
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