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- adjective Not
ideal
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Each year we were mildly disappointed with the condition of the grapes -- they were growing the plants for wood, not for grapes, so they were nonideal for wine.
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Each year we were mildly disappointed with the condition of the grapes -- they were growing the plants for wood, not for grapes, so they were nonideal for wine.
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It is a way to make the best of a nonideal situation, which is that the orchestra lacks a permanent home.
NYT > Home Page By ZACHARY WOOLFE 2011
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The cross, she said, is the symbol of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal. ...
The Seattle Times 2011
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Other solutions adapt a classic nonideal RF transceiver architecture which compromises performance, increases complexity, and consumes significantly more power.
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Other solutions adapt a classic nonideal RF transceiver architecture which compromises performance, increases complexity, and consumes significantly more power.
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Because of the subjective nature of value and the impossibility of interpersonal utility comparisons, the social-cost and social-benefit curves used to define the nonideal nature of externalities simply do not exist.
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The model can also incorporate nonideal behavior, such as sampling jitter and operational-amplifier noise.
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Other solutions adapt a classic nonideal RF transceiver architecture which compromises performance, increases complexity, and consumes significantly more power.
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Other solutions adapt a classic nonideal RF transceiver architecture which compromises performance, increases complexity, and consumes significantly more power.
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