The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonstandard \nonstandard\, non-standard \non-standard\adj.
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varying from or not adhering to a standard; as, nonstandard windows; envelopes of nonstandard sizes; non-standard lengths of board cost more per foot. Opposite of standard. [Narrower terms: deficient, inferior, substandard]
Syn: nonstandard.
(Linguistics) Not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; as, a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups. Opposite of standard.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not standard. 2 (context linguistics English) Not conforming to the language as used by the majority of its speakers. n. Something that is not standard.
WordNet
adj. not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; "a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups"; "the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech"- A.R.Dunlap [ant: standard]
varying from or not adhering to a standard; "nonstandard windows"; "envelopes of nonstandard sizes"; "nonstandard lengths of board" [ant: standard]
not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence; "a nonstandard text" [ant: standard]
Usage examples of "nonstandard".
The half-grown ship called for nonstandard activity, he found almost immediately on being roused himself.
We need to uninstall the software, replace the nonstandard components of the hardware, then reinstall.
This opaque object was classified as a nonstandard quasar, as if there were such a thing as a standard quasar.
It lurched sideways, a distinctly nonstandard maneuver, crashed into the flank of the artifact, and slid off, trailing occasional puffs of hot gas and fragments of itself.
All chests and barrels would be sized to fit neatly within the container, and anything nonstandard would get charged double rates, at least.
Earth Spaceship Control, had been notified that the province of Oregon was closed to all nonstandard in-atmosphere and nearspace traffic.
ROSCHA worked frantically at the powerpack of their only heavy laser, trying to mate a salvaged blaster cell into the nonstandard housing.
TOMSEY frowned over the power pack of their only heavy laser, working methodically to mate a salvaged blaster cell into the nonstandard housing.
CAMINESI winced as an incautious movement jarred his bandaged arm and shoulder, and stopped trying to pry the power pack away from the nonstandard mounting.
Broussard made the hole with a nonstandard piece of astronaut equipment known as a Colt .
While dozens of military and civilian employees scrambled to find someone else with expertise in defusing a nonstandard home-brew nuclear device, the reality had sunk in that their best chance for defusing the Medusa Weapon had probably been lost in the wreckage of the Grumman.
The extraordinary physical environment may to a nonstandard ecology rise have given.
Although this method did require the chip to be switched every time there was a message to go out, they had judged it safer than leaving the chip in place permanently and attempting to access it from a remote terminal, which would have left a nonstandard piece of hardware waiting to be discovered.
You found some of the weirdest nonstandard components on these out-of-the-way Stations.