The specifications provided examples of such devices and other descriptions of their structure, which confirmed that the claims were not merely directed to “nonce words” defined solely by ...

Patent claims that use so-called “nonce words” in lieu of means plus function language can be correctly construed as applying the equivalent of means plus function language under 35 USC §112 ...

On the other end are nonce words: those “coined and used apparently to suit one particular occasion,” according to Britannica. The term comes from for the nonce, a nearly 900-year-old ...

In other cases, nonce words are the result of a mistake. The G. and C. Merriam Company, for example, added the word “dord” to its 1934 New International Dictionary as an abbreviation for ...

At some point, “nonce” became widely used in U.K. prisons as a label for sex offenders, particularly those convicted of crimes against children.

Nonce words in the Canterbury Tales as a whole appear at the rate of one in every twenty-seven lines. The highest concentration of these words occurs in Sir Thopas and in the Reeve's Tale where ...