Usually means: Opposite yet possibly both true.
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  1. subcontrary: Merriam-Webster
  2. subcontrary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subcontrary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subcontrary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subcontrary: Wordnik
  6. subcontrary: Wiktionary
  7. subcontrary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. subcontrary: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. subcontrary: Dictionary.com
  10. Subcontrary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Subcontrary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. subcontrary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Subcontrary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. subcontrary: FreeDictionary.org
  15. subcontrary: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subcontrary)

adjective:  Contrary in an inferior degree.
adjective:  (geometry) Having, or being in, a contrary order; said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
adjective:  (logic) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
noun:  (logic) Either of a pair of propositions at least one of which must be true

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