tautology
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tautology (countable and uncountable; plural tautologies)
- (linguistics, uncountable) redundant use of words
- It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
- (linguistics, countable) An expression that features tautology.
- (logic, countable) A statement that is true for all values of its variables
- Given a Boolean A, "A OR (NOT A)" is a tautology.
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- (linguistics: expression): contradiction in terms
- (in logic): contradiction
- (literary): oxymoron
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[edit] Translations
uncountable: redundant use of words
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expression that features tautology
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in logic
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