not: Meaning and Definition of
not
Pronunciation: (not), [key]
— adv.
- (used to express negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition): You must not do that. It's not far from here.
- (used jocularly as a postpositive interjection to indicate that a previous statement is untrue): That's a lovely dress. Not!
not-
- var. ofbefore a vowel.
NOT
Pronunciation: (not), [key]
- a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
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