noncapturing

Not capturing.

Adjective

  1. Not capturing.
    • 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...
  2. That does not store its matched text for later processing.
    • Noncapturing groups can be used to describe repetition patterns or alternatives, without isolating the matching portion of the string in the value returned. - 2011, Doug Hellmann, The Python Standard Library by Example,...

    Synonyms: noncapture

Origin

From non- + capturing.