Category: N

  • Nonexempt employees

    Employees who are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act.  

  • Nonemissive erection

    A sexual dysfunction in which a man is able to achieve an erection but is not able to ejaculate.  

  • Noneffective environment

    That part of the external environment to which a person is not responding at any given time, effective environment.    

  • Nondisjunction

    Failure of chromosomes to separate in cell division, with the result that both go to the same cell. Particularly, failure of maternal and paternal chromosomes to separate in the reduction division of meiosis. Failure of homologous pairs of chromosomes to separate during the processes of nuclear division, resulting in an abnormal number of chromosomes in…

  • Nondirective techniques (Therapy)

    Methods for psychological treatment developed by Carl Rogers wherein the therapist refrains from offering advice or interpretations, but only tries to clarify the person’s feelings by repeating or restating what is said, client- centered therapy.  

  • Nondebatable

    Subjects or motions that cannot be discussed or debated under strict rules of order.  

  • Noncontinuity theory

    The theory that learning occurs in an all or none way.  

  • Nonconscious ideologies

    Beliefs and attitudes about which a person has acquired such uniform messages in socialization that the person is not aware that he or she holds such beliefs and attitudes because no alternative is available.  

  • Nonconductor

    Anything that does not transmit an electrical current or any other form of energy. Any substance that does not transmit heat, sound, or electricity or that conducts it with difficulty. Strictly speaking, there is no perfect nonconductor. On the application of a sufficiently high voltage, current may be caused to flow through materials usually spoken…

  • Noncommunicable disease

    A disease that cannot be transmitted from one person to another. An infectious disease such as tetanus or botulism that cannot be transmitted from one person to another.