adjective
- not perfect or optimal; deviating from an ideal standard
Usage: often used in technical or scientific contexts
Examples
- The nonideal conditions in the laboratory affected the experiment results.
- Real gases behave in nonideal ways under high pressure.
- The nonideal weather made driving difficult.
- Engineers must account for nonideal materials in their designs.
- The nonideal solution contained impurities that changed its properties.
- Working with nonideal data requires careful statistical analysis.