nonmetric , also: nonmetrical

For measuring distances I've used homely nonmetric miles.

A hard conversion is a fresh start in round metric modules, without reference to previous nonmetric designs and practices.

For example, most automobile transmissions are now designed using metric specifications, but they must frequently be mated to nonmetric engines, he said.

Forensic scientists and archaeologists use metric and nonmetric traits to estimate what the bearer of the skull looked like.

Semna South, Sudan: A nonmetric biological distance study.

("SAE" is often used as a blanket term for the nonmetric sizes, despite the technical inaccuracy of that usage.)

This is not surprising, as manufacturers today are usually capable of making whichever threads (metric or nonmetric) are best for any given application (based on customer expectations or tooling availability).

Killing vector fields can also be defined on any (possibly nonmetric) manifold M if we take any Lie group G acting on it instead of the group of isometries.

This will ensure a continued application of the current practice and will allow continuing flexibility as regards nonmetric units when no metric units exist, e.g. binary measurements in computing (bits, bytes).

Often there is a choice between Metric MDS (which deals with interval or ratio level data), and Nonmetric MDS (which deals with ordinal data).

Figure 9-4 Results of multivariate ordination on benthic macroinvertebrate data from "least impaired" streams from Maryland, using nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) of Bray-Curtis dissimilarity coefficients.

Except for the mile, world records are no longer recognized at nonmetric distances, and the Arkansas time cannot be approved as an American record because the team has three non-Americans (a Kenyan, an Australian and a Canadian).

Another application is nonmetric multidimensional scaling (Kruskal, 1964), where a low-dimensional embedding for data points is sought such that order of distances between points in the embedding matches order of dissimilarity between points.

Because the space station is supposed to be an international effort with Russia as one of the partners, the design of the station creates large problems meshing metric and nonmetric components in mechanical and electronic linkages, Mr. Weinstein said.

But although the United States stands almost alone as a nonmetric country, and despite the consequent disadvantages, even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration continues to apply some nonmetric specifications to its spacecraft.