What does Assertion mean?
Definitions for Assertion
əˈsɜr ʃənas·ser·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
assertion, averment, asseverationnoun
a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
affirmation, assertion, statementnoun
the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
Wiktionary
assertionnoun
The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
assertionnoun
Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
assertionnoun
A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
Etymology: assertion, from assertio
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Assertionnoun
The act of asserting.
Etymology: from assert.
If any affirm the earth doth move, and will not believe with us it standeth still; because he hath probable reasons for it, and I no infallible sense or reason against it, I will not quarrel with his assertion. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i.
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assertion
An assertion is a strong statement or declaration that something is true or false, often without providing any evidence or proof. It is a confident and forceful declaration based on one's knowledge, belief or perception. Assertions are commonly used in literature, debates, arguments, or in legal contexts. In programming, an assertion is a statement that a certain condition is expected to be true at a certain point in the program.
Webster Dictionary
Assertionnoun
the act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced
Assertionnoun
maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives
Etymology: [L. assertio, fr. asserere.]
Wikidata
Assertion
In computer programming, an assertion is a predicate placed in a program to indicate that the developer thinks that the predicate is always true at that place.
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Assertion' in Nouns Frequency: #2820
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Assertion in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Assertion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Assertion in a Sentence
Secretary Pompeo notion that religious liberty and property rights are inherently more important than, for instance, freedom from discrimination, is dangerous. And Secretary Pompeo assertion that President Donald Trump stands opposed to those fomenting division in American society, rather than as a leading agitator of societal discord, is simply absurd.
There's a reason the Obama administration and The Trump administration, at least before this point, never made such audacious legal claims. The assertion that Congress has authorized the executive branch to use force against Iran is unsound. A bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress have rejected that view in just the past few weeks through congressional findings, the administration's position is dangerous. It holds Iran directly responsible for abuses committed by armed groups under a new-fangled theory that United States would not want to see applied to our support for armed forces including the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen and the Syrian Kurdish forces' treatment of detainees.
Newsday quoted Terrence Connors as saying in an e-mail. Alphonso David, Alphonso David, said in an emailed statement that New York state had launched three investigations into the Buffalo residents allegations against William Hoyt, a former regional president of the Empire State Development Corp. Any assertion to the contrary is patently and demonstrably false, and as such, we expect this matter to be summarily dismissed.
There is a false narrative about leveraged and inverse ETFs being spread by the prudential regulators, it is the unsubstantiated assertion that these products contribute to increased volatility in the financial markets because they must rebalance their portfolios in the same direction as the contemporaneous return on the underlying assets in order to maintain a constant leverage ratio.
Beijing's claim to the vast majority of South China has no basis in international law. That assertion treads on the sovereignty of states in the region.
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