assert
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English[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Etymology[edit]
From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + serō (“join, range in a row”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (RP) IPA: /əˈsɜːt/, X-SAMPA: /@"s3:t/
- (GenAm) IPA: /əˈsɝt/, X-SAMPA: /@"s3`t/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t
Noun[edit]
assert (plural asserts)
- (computer science) an assert statement; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
assert (third-person singular simple present asserts, present participle asserting, simple past and past participle asserted)
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
- 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 168:
- Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
- he would often assert his beliefs to us
- 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 168:
- To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- to assert one's authority
- Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work
- To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
- The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.
- (computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1.
Synonyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
To affirm
to use or exercise and thereby prove
To maintain; to defend
To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures
External links[edit]
- assert in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- assert in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- assert at OneLook Dictionary Search
