nonstop

adj

1. (not-comparable)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.”

   “Christmas in Strasbourg and the rest of Alsace is officially feted from the last Saturday in November through Dec. 31 in a month full of nonstop markets, concerts, torch-lighted forest walks, parades, live Nativity scenes, storytelling, theater and public aperitifs.”

   “Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly.”

2. (not-comparable)Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.

adv

1. (not-comparable)Without stopping; without interruption or break

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

noun

1. A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.

   “With business-class seats on nonstops from British Airways and Cathay Pacific often priced up to $8,000 round trip, Mr. Exton typically flew cheaper alternatives that saved money but required layovers and plane switches.”

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

   “[In Hungary:] Most department stores and gift shops are open weekdays 10–5 or 6, Saturday until 1. Grocery stores are generally open weekdays from 7 or 8 am to 7 pm; “nonstops,” or éjjeli-nappali,^([sic]) are open 24 hours.”

   “There's usually something open on most holidays apart from the evening of 24 December when even the nonstops stop.”

   “The Prague discos were bursting with bright leggings and bangles, and headbands and Rock-and-Troll leather dominated the Slayer inundated underground nonstops—Central Europe was where the West had shipped the eighties shit surpless when they were through with it.”

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

   “Some of these consonants are stops, some are non-stops (continuants, see 11.2); some are voiced, others voiceless. It doesn't therefore look as if these consonants can have anything in common.”