Definition of "nonliving" []

• Alternative spelling of non-living. (adjective)

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• "It follows that mind - concious, rational intelligent agency - what philosophers call "agent causation", now stands as the only cause known to be capable of generating large amounts of specified information from a nonliving state"
• "S Patrice: Welder 4 has four hours before becoming truly nonliving, but has twenty hours of breathable atmosphere on board."
• "We will never know for sure how that initial transformation from nonliving to living occurred because the evidence is gone."