assertion
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Middle French assertion[1], from Latin assertio
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈsɜːʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈsɜɹʃən/, [əˈsɝʃn̩]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən
Noun[edit]
assertion (countable and uncountable, plural assertions)
- The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
- Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.
- You're a man of strong assertions!
- 2007 January 26, Ruth M. J. Byrne, The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality[1], MIT Press, →ISBN, page 140:
- Suppose you are given the semifactual assertion, "even if Nora had liked mathematics then she would have became a scientist" and then you find out that Nora did in fact become a scientist.
- A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.
- That's just a bare assertion.
- Maintenance; vindication
- the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives
- (programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
- 2006, Srikanth Vijayaraghavan, Meyyappan Ramanathan, A Practical Guide for SystemVerilog Assertions (page 284)
- The user should be absolutely confident that the error issued is a real design error. In other words, a user should be confident that his assertion code is correct and that the assertion failure is not a false condition.
- 2006, Srikanth Vijayaraghavan, Meyyappan Ramanathan, A Practical Guide for SystemVerilog Assertions (page 284)
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Translations[edit]
affirmation; statement asserted
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maintenance; vindication; assertion of one's rights
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References[edit]
- “assertion” in the Collins English Dictionary
- assertion at OneLook Dictionary Search
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
assertion f (plural assertions)
Further reading[edit]
- “assertion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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