nonlocal
adjective
non·lo·cal
ˌnän-ˈlō-kəl 
: not local
nonlocal issues/politics
a nonlocal anesthetic
nonlocally
adverb
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Twelve of the 17 nonlocal journalists who CPJ says are imprisoned throughout the world were being held in Russia.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
The problem of nonlocal realism would languish for another three decades before being shattered by Bell.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2022
First, creating nonlocal connections between qubits is tough, especially for companies like IBM that make qubits out of immobile superconducting circuits.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
Mathur and others also argued that the new work implies a nonlocal effect—one that does not propagate through space but jumps from one place to another—to extract information from the black hole.
—George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
The problem of nonlocal realism would languish for another three decades before being shattered by Bell.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2022
First, creating nonlocal connections between qubits is tough, especially for companies like IBM that make qubits out of immobile superconducting circuits.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
Mathur and others also argued that the new work implies a nonlocal effect—one that does not propagate through space but jumps from one place to another—to extract information from the black hole.
—George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
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“Nonlocal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonlocal. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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