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Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

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  1. n. Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
  2. adj. not containing or resembling or characteristic of a metal
  3. n. a chemical element lacking typical metallic properties
  4. Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
  5. Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with themetals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basicproperties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine arenonmetals.
  6. n. a chemical element lacking typical metallic properties