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What does nonsense mean?

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Noun
  1. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
  2. An untrue statement.
  3. Something foolish.
  4. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
  5. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Verb
  1. To make nonsense of
  2. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  3. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time
Adjective
  1. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
  2. nonsensical
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