Nonletter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    That which is not a letter (alphabetic symbol).

    "Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading."

  2. 2
    That which is not a letter (written message to be delivered).

Example

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"Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading."

Etymology

From non- + letter.

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