assertion

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈsɜː(ɹ).ʃən/

  Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən

Etymology

Middle French assertion, from Latin assertio

Noun

assertion ‎(plural assertions)

1. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

   You're a man of strong assertions!

2. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
3. (computing) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

Related terms

• assertoric

Translations

affirmation; statement asserted

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: твърдение (bg) n ‎(tvǎrdénie)
• Catalan: asserció f, afirmació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斷言 (zh), 断言 (zh) ‎(duànyán), 主張 (zh), 主张 (zh) ‎(zhǔzhāng)

• Czech: tvrzení (cs) n
• Dutch: bevestiging (nl)
• Esperanto: aserto
• French: (logic) assertion (fr) f, (rhetoric) confirmation (fr) f, assertion (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Versicherung (de) f, Zusicherung f, Behauptung (de) f, Beteuerung (de) f, Erklärung (de) f, Vorbringen n, Aussage (de) m

• Italian: asserzione (it)
• Japanese: 主張 (ja) ‎(しゅちょう, shuchō)
• Korean: 단정, 주장 ‎(danjeong, jujang)
• Portuguese: asserção (pt) f, assertiva (pt) f, afirmação (pt)
• Russian: утвержде́ние (ru) n ‎(utverždénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: тврдња f ‎(tvrdnja)
• Spanish: afirmación (es) f, aserto (es) m
• Tagalog: giitsabi
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

maintenance; vindication; assertion of one's rights

• German: Durchsetzung f, Geltendmachung f,

Anagrams

• airstones
• notarises
• rai stones
• reasonist
• señoritas, senoritas

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Noun

assertion f ‎(plural assertions)

1. assertion