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assert
/əˈsɝt/
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What does assert mean?
verb
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
- To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
More meanings (4)
verb
- To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
- To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
- To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
noun
- Synonym of assertion.
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IPA pronunciation
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The first is that it is incorrect to assert a mechanical regularity of crime, which from Quetelet's time has been much exaggerated.
But it is correct to assert that in such cases there is really no evidence, there is only a form of evidence.
More book examples (3)
Moreover, woman shall further assert her power by refusing to remain the passive instrument of sensual self-gratification on the part of men.
In contrast, there are others who read and theorize too exclusively, and are inclined to assert that concentrated fertilizers supersede all others.
Some, indeed, would assert that some such relationship must necessarily exist in every instance, at least in the domain of the subconscious.