negation
/nɪˈɡeɪʃən/
noun
- The act or process of making something ineffective or canceling it out.
- The negation of the treaty led to renewed tensions between the countries.
- The new policy resulted in the negation of all previous agreements.
- Exercise can lead to the negation of some negative health effects of a poor diet.
- A statement that denies or contradicts something; a negative statement.
- The witness's testimony was a direct negation of the defendant's claims.
- His answer was a simple negation: 'No, that is not true.'
- In grammar, adding 'not' creates a negation of the verb.
- In logic or mathematics, the operation of reversing the truth value or sign of a statement or number.
- The negation of 'all birds can fly' is 'some birds cannot fly.'
- The negation of a negative number results in a positive number.
- In Boolean algebra, the negation of true is false.
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