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nonstop

noun

Meaning

  • (travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.

  • A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.

  • A linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.

adjective

Meaning

  • 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."

  • Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.

adverb

Meaning

  • Without stopping; without interruption or break

    "He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off."

Synonyms

ceaselessly,
endlessly,
incessantly