0 not directed at, intended for, or suitable for someone or something:
These regulations are inapplicable to visitors from outside the European Community.
Some variables are only used with some models, as they would be inapplicable for some policies.
And, most seriously, a major tool of evolutionary biology, the comparative method, is inapplicable to the study of the origins of language.
When social conditions changed, the laws would automatically become inapplicable.
In practice, we apply the rule (elab-dn-up) only if all other analysis elaboration rules are inapplicable.
We should also be sensitive to the inapplicable area.
And an externalist/natural-kind account of how the sentence could have the required truth-condition seems inapplicable in this case.
When there is smooth contact-angle variation, the thermostatic theory is inapplicable.
Since one setting of a switch is neither simpler nor more complex than the other, a simplicity metric over grammars would be inapplicable.
