non-stop
noun
- 1
(travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
- 2
A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.
- 3
A linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.
adjective
- 1
Without stopping; without interruption or break.
“There's a nonstop flight to Mauritius, but I'm not sitting on the same plane for thirteen hours.”
- 2
Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
adverb
- 1
Without stopping; without interruption or break
“He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off.”
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