Nonstop

noun

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

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

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

adjective

  1. 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.

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

adverb

  1. Without stopping; without interruption or break

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

Synonyms: ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly

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