Wiktionary
a. that does not result in destruction or damage to the material under investigation
Usage examples of "nondestructive".
Because at last we had a nondestructive means of scanning the exact state of muons through infinitesimal passages of time, we were able to find some astonishing correlations between memory and the barely detectable muon states of slant and yaw.
Every type of nondestructive test that Decker could imagine was included.
So Scholars developed programs for nondestructive identification of characteristics.
The tests are nondestructive, so I hoped there would be no objections to the procedure.
These studies yielded many valuable results, but were still limited by the fact that -- except for a few small samples taken during 1973 -- all tests have had to be nondestructive in nature.
Grantville will have a working X-ray spectrometer that will be able to do a nondestructive assay on any samples of slag sent back to it.
So any technology we create will have to be nondestructive of the environment.
The Titans used the technique as an easy, nondestructive method of shutting Quentin down whenever he grew too unruly.
It contained a small but full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced gamma rays used for NDI, or nondestructive inspection, of military aircraft.
This involved the use of two nondestructive techniques: ground-penetrating radar and microgravimetry.
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in the area of nondestructive testing of aerospace structures.
During the days before the embryos were ready for implantation, while Volescu was no doubt trying frantically to devise some nondestructive procedure that he could pretend was a genetic test, Petra was glad not to have to stay in the hospital personally watching over the embryos the whole time.