statement
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsteɪtmənt/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtmənt
- Hyphenation: state‧ment
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
statement (plural statements)
- A declaration or remark.
- make a statement
- publish a statement
- utter a statement
- A presentation of opinion or position.
- (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
- a bank statement
- (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
- 1981, Thomas C. Bartee, BASIC computer programming, page 110:
- In this section we will examine BASIC's primary statement for repeating a string of statements under program control: the FOR statement. Another statement, the NEXT statement, is always used with a FOR statement.
- 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming (page 174)
- However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from statement
TranslationsEdit
declaration or remark
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presentation of opinion or position
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finance: document that summarizes financial activity
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computing: instruction in a computer program
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Etymology 2Edit
Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.
VerbEdit
statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)
- (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.
See alsoEdit
- Special education in England on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further readingEdit
- statement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- statement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911