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形容詞

noncapturing (not comparable)

1. Not capturing.
   • 2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics‎, page 10:

     Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.

2. (computing, of part of a regular expression) That does not store its matched text for later processing.

   Synonym: noncapture

   • 2011, Doug Hellmann, The Python Standard Library by Example, page 36:

     Noncapturing groups can be used to describe repetition patterns or alternatives, without isolating the matching portion of the string in the value returned.