demonstration

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin demonstrationem (from verb demonstrare, "show" or "explain", from prefix de-, "of" or "concerning", + verb monstrare, "show").

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

Singular
demonstration

Plural
demonstrations

demonstration (plural demonstrations)

  1. The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
  2. An event at which something will be demonstrated.
    I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
  3. A public display of group opinion.
  4. A show of military force.
  5. 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.

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[edit] Translations

act
event
public display
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[edit] Danish

[edit] Noun

demonstration c. (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)

  1. demonstration

[edit] Inflection

    Inflection of “demonstration”
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative demonstration demonstrationen demonstrationer demonstrationerne
genitive demonstrations demonstrationens demonstrationers demonstrationernes
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