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nonpoint

adjective
non·​point | \ ËŒnän-ˈpȯint How to pronounce nonpoint (audio) \

Definition of nonpoint

: being a source of pollution (such as runoff from farmland) that is not confined to a single point also : being pollution or a pollutant that does not arise from a single indentifiable source

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 But the bigger culprits are nonpoint sources, the thousands of farms where runoff from fields reaches rivers or other tributaries feeding western Lake Erie. — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, "Forecasters: Lake Erie algae bloom shaping up as big and possibly harmful," 13 July 2017

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First Known Use of nonpoint

1977, in the meaning defined above

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