Usually means: Claim or statement presented as fact.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. assertion: Merriam-Webster
  2. assertion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. assertion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. assertion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. assertion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Assertion, assertion: Wordnik
  7. assertion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. assertion: Wiktionary
  9. assertion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. assertion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. assertion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Assertion, assertion: Dictionary.com
  13. assertion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. assertion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Assertion (computing), Assertion (programming), Assertion (software development), Assertion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Assertion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. assertion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. assertion: Rhymezone
  19. Assertion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. assertion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. assertion: FreeDictionary.org
  22. assertion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. assertion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. assertion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. assertion: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. assertion: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. assertion: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Assertion (computing), assertion: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. assertion: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Assertion (computing), assertion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assertion: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
noun:  Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.
noun:  A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.
noun:  Maintenance; vindication
noun:  (programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
noun:  (finance) the set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.

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