assertion — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.

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   "Do tell us the real name of your country, and then when you are gone we shall know how to talk about you." To this luminous argument and remonstrance I could oppose nothing but assertion, and the whole party remained firmly convinced that I was for some reason or other deceiving them.

2. Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.

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   contention

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   You're a man of strong assertions!

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   Suppose you are given the semifactual assertion, "even if Nora had liked mathematics then she would have became^([sic]) a scientist" and then you find out that Nora did in fact become a scientist.

3. A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.

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   That's just a bare assertion.

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   Drivers' union ASLEF bluntly rebuffed the claim of unofficial action, calling it a lie. And Avanti West Coast was unable to provide any proof for its assertion, when questioned by RAIL.

   However, that assertion is not backed up by US intelligence, sources told CNN. […] That claim came despite the Trump administration’s repeated assertions that the US had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program in military strikes last year.

4. Maintenance; vindication.

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   the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives

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

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   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.

6. The set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.

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Noun

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

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   avermentasseveration

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   declaration

2. the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

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   affirmationstatement

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   speech act