nonairborne

English

Etymology

non- +‎ airborne

Adjective

nonairborne (not comparable)

1. Not airborne.
   • 1975, Donald I. Kurth, Laxman S. Sundae, Clifford W. Schultz, “Dust Generation and Comminution of Coal”, in Report of Investigations, page 25:

     If this were so, the nonairborne dust distribution could be used to predict the respirable dust distribution.

   • 1997, Advances in Heat Transfer, page 296:

     A more quantitative treatment of nonairborne interactions was given in Williams et al. (see [22, App. B])..

   • 2012, Richard R. Fay, Hearing by Bats, page 61:

     Hunting nonairborne prey may also provide access to more prey because there often are more insects on the ground than in the air (Rautenback, Kemp, and Scholz 1988).