Dictionary
noun : ARGUMENT
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true" ;
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2. (
) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument" ;
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3. (
) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on" ;
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4. (
) a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie; "the editor added the argument to the poem" ;
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5. (
) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program ;
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6. (
) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable ;
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7. (
) a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your line of reasoning" ;
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