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not



Pronunciation: (not), [key]
adv.
1. (used to express negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition): You must not do that. It's not far from here.
2. U.S. Slang. (used jocularly as a postpositive interjection to indicate that a previous statement is untrue): That's a lovely dress. Not!

not-




var. of noto- before a vowel.

NOT



Pronunciation: (not), [key]
n.
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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