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assertion

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From Middle French assertion,[1] from Latin assertio.

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assertion (countable and uncountable, plural assertions)

  1. The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
  2. 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[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.
    That's just a bare assertion.
    • 2022 August 24, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Union slams Avanti West Coast: 'lie' as services slashed”, in RAIL, number 964, page 6:
      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.
  4. Maintenance; vindication
    the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives
  5. (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.
  6. (finance) the set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “assertion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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From Latin assertiōnem.

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assertion f (plural assertions)

  1. assertion

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