inapplicable
adjEtymology From in- + applicable.
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Not applicable; that does not apply or cannot be applied; unsuitable or irrelevant.
- The argument is inapplicable to the case.
- In this case, y(#92;cdot) is not single-valued at any price vector allowing for nonzero production, making Hotelling's lemma inapplicable at these prices.1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 141:
- Synonyms
- unapplicable
- Derived terms
- inapplicableness, inapplicably