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nonstop
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As an adjective, nonstop means without stopping. As an adverb, it means without stopping.
Meanings of nonstop
9 meaningsadjective
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.”
geneticsDescribing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
(of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops
“a nonstop flight to Atlanta”
At all times
“around-the-clock nursing care”
Similar: around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock
adverb
Without stopping; without interruption or break
“He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off.”
noun
travelA nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.
linguisticsA linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.
A flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination
“how many nonstops are there to Dallas?”
Similar: nonstop flight
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).