demonstration
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin demonstrationem (from verb demonstrare, "show" or "explain", from prefix de-, "of" or "concerning", + verb monstrare, "show").
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demonstration (plural demonstrations)
- The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- An event at which something will be demonstrated.
- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- A public display of group opinion.
- A show of military force.
- A mathematical proof.
- a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
- He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
- a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
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act
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event
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public display
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- Swedish: demonstration sv(sv) n.
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[edit] Danish
[edit] Noun
demonstration c. (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)
[edit] Inflection
Inflection of “demonstration”
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | demonstration | demonstrationen | demonstrationer | demonstrationerne |
| genitive | demonstrations | demonstrationens | demonstrationers | demonstrationernes |