negation
- Noun. (uncountable) The act of negating something.
- Noun. (countable) A denial or contradiction.
- Noun. (logic, countable) A proposition that is true if and only if another one is false; a proposition resulting from the application to another proposition of the logical operation "not".
- Noun. (logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
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