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The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.countableuncountable
- "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
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Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.countableuncountable
- You're a man of strong assertions!
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A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.countableuncountable
- That's just a bare assertion.
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Maintenance; vindication.countableuncountable
- the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives
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A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.countableuncountable
- 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.
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The set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.countableuncountable
syn. accusation · allegation · censure · charge · crimination · impeachment