# nonaffixed
## English
### Etymology

From non- +‎ affixed.

### Adjective

nonaffixed (not comparable)
* (linguistics) Having no affixes; composed of a single morpheme.
** 1980, Status Report on Speech Research - Issues 63-64, page 246:The Manelis and Tharp ( 1977 ) investigation failed to find a difference between affixed and nonaffixed words in either direction, a result that favored the independent entries hypothesis over either version of the decompositional hypothesis.
** 1986, Wilbur A. Benware, Phonetics and Phonology of Modern German, page 103:Other nonaffixed polysyllabic words (words of more than one syllable with neither a prefix nor a suffix) are generally stressed initially also, when they are of Germanic origin.
** 1996, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock, Joyce L. Harris, Communication Development and Disorders in African American Children, page 317:The grammatical status of the final cluster (e.g., comparisons of nonaffixed "guest" with suffixed "crossed" ) as well as phonetic environment (e.g., consonant versus vowel context immediately following the cluster as in "A dog chased my cat yesterday" vs. "A dog chased a cat yesterday") were variables of interest.
* Not a fixture; not built in.
** 1960, California. State Board of Equalization, Biennial Report of the State Board of Equalization, page 36:Observing that nonaffixed articles have been held to be constructively annexed only when they are essential to the purpose of predominant fixtures and concluding that the boxes were not essential to the operation of the vault or the building, the District Court of Appeal held that the boxes and their metal con- tainers were personal property and, therefore, exempt from property taxation under Section 16, Article XIII of the California Constitution which provides an "in lieu" tax for banks.
** 1977, American Law Reports: Cases and annotations, page 194:No case has been cited to us or has been found as a result of our study which would justify departure in this situation from the universal rule denying compensation for movable, nonaffixed personal property on condemned realty.
** 1999, William H. Lawrence, William H. Henning, R. Wilson Freyermuth, Understanding Secured Transactions, page 357:One can appreciate that when a prudent secured party takes a security interest in a good that it expects to become a fixture, that secured party not only should make a fixture filing, but also should file any financing statement necessary to perfect a security interest in the good in its nonaffixed form.
** 2013, Aleka Mandaraka-Sheppard, Modern Maritime Law (Volume 2): Managing Risks and Liabilities:Thus, in relation to the issue of appropriation of property, although the ship had not been completed, the property in the uncompleted ship, excluding the nonaffixed material, was the property of the purchaser.
* Detached; unconnected.
** 1960, Art Journal - Volume 62, page 47:More likely, the existence of this diverse group show in Frankfurt in September 1967 illustrates an early engagement by European artists with loose materials composed of nonaffixed elements (whether natural or not) —what in New York in a few years would be named Postminimalism .
** 1969, The Cabellian: A Journal of the Second American Renaissance, page 28:This habit of Mencken's stood the Library in good stead, for all nonaffixed correspondence with twentieth-century authors was left to the New York Public Library, restricted until January 31, 1971.
** 1984, Patent and Trade Mark Review - Volume 82, page 60:Commenting on these concepts under the former industrial property law, Professor Rangel-Medina stated that both an affixed and nonaffixed usage should be deemed trademark use under Mexican law, that legal effect should be accorded even in the absence of a physical relation between the trademark and the product itself, and that any mention and reference to the trademark, either written or oral, should be accorded legal effect in the resolution of controversies.
** 2005, American Journal of Veterinary Research, page 1612:A nonaffixed IUP measuring unit has a certain risk that it could be expelled by propagated uterine contractions during the early postpartum period.
** 2017, Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association, Patient Transport, page 216:An example of this is in acceleration/declaration trauma, when a nonaffixed portion of the aorta is forced anterior while the affixed portion is more or less stable.