Usually means: Denial or contradiction of statement.
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  1. negation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. negation: Merriam-Webster
  3. negation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. negation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. negation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. negation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Negation, negation: Wordnik
  8. negation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. negation: Wiktionary
  10. negation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. negation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. negation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. negation: Dictionary.com
  14. negation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Negation (algebra), Negation (comics), Negation (disambiguation), Negation (linguistics), Negation (rhetoric), Negation, The Negation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Negation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. negation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. negation: Rhymezone
  19. negation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. negation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. negation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. negation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. negation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Negation: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. negation: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. negation: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. negation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. negation: Medical dictionary
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  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. negation: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. negation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)
  3. Negation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See negational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act of negating something.
noun:  (countable) A denial or contradiction.
noun:  (logic, countable) A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
noun:  (logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

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