nonthermal

1. 1.

   not involving heat

   “nonthermal luminescence”

   Antonymsthermal

Questions about nonthermal

What does nonthermal mean?

nonthermal means "not involving heat".

How many syllables are in nonthermal?

nonthermal has 3 syllables and divides as non-ther-mal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of nonthermal?

The recorded antonyms are thermal.

Is nonthermal a common word?

nonthermal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.