| 释义 |
non-conˈtingent, a.
[f. non- 3 + contingent a. 4.]
That does not happen by chance or depend on a variable.
1890J. Rankine Erskine's Princ. Law Scotl. (ed. 18) iii. vii. 405 The running of prescription is suspended during the minority of the person who is verus dominus, being lawfully vested with a non-contingent title to compete for possession, or of him who is the true creditor. 1939Kurtz & Edgerton Statistical Dict. Terms & Symbols 99 Mathematically independent, unaffected by the happening of another event or by the size of another variable. Also called independent, non-contingent, and uncontingent. 1971Jrnl. General Psychol. Apr. 326 Ss were given either 30%, 50%, or 70% noncontingent positive E-administered reinforcement. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. Sept. 16 The final design contained two levels of noncontingent preference value within subjects. |