Definitions for assertion
əˈsɜr ʃənas·ser·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. assertion, averment, asseverationnoun

   a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

2. affirmation, assertion, statementnoun

   the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. assertionnoun

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

2. assertionnoun

   Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

3. assertionnoun

   A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

4. Etymology: assertion, from assertio

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. Assertionnoun

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

2. Assertionnoun

   maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives

3. Etymology: [L. assertio, fr. asserere.]

FreebaseRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Declaration
   • Speech Act

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'assertion' in Nouns Frequency: #2820

Anagrams for assertion »

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of assertion in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of assertion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of assertion in a Sentence

1. Bill Ramsey:

   Any assertion that we do not take sexual assault seriously enough is simply not true, to claim that we have allowed a culture to exist contrary to our institutional commitment to providing a safe environment for our students or that we do not support those who report sexual assault is just false.

2. Robert Myers:

   Sarkis Izmirlian said in a statement. According to the bankruptcy filing, Baha Mar Ltd sent teams to Beijing three times over the last two months in attempts to salvage an agreement. The bankruptcy filing represents the latest setback for China State Construction, which was banned from participating in World Bank-funded projects for six years starting in January 2009, after the multilateral agency found that China State Construction had colluded in rigging bids for a Philippines road project. According to the bankruptcy filing, China State Construction claims that Baha Mar Ltd has withheld $ 140 million in funds it is owed, an assertion Baha Mar disputes. The Export-Import Bank of China, according to the filing, has refused to release approximately $ 112 million remaining in the $ 2.45 billion loan China Export-Import Bank extended for the project. The Bahamas, a country of about 353,000 people, has an economy heavily dependent on tourism, and Baha Mar Ltd was expected to create 5,000 new jobs when fully operational. The resort's projected annual payroll of $ 130 million would represent about 12 percent of the country's gross domestic product, the developer said in its court filing. It's an absolute disaster.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   Israel is not an apartheid state and any conference seeking to promote such a baseless assertion must be recognized for the sham that it is.

4. Thomas Madejski:

   To make an assertion that New York physicians are prescribing opioids because of payments from drug companies is completely at odds with recent statistics showing a significant decrease in opioid prescribing in New York.

5. Lloyd Austin:

   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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