assertion
/əˈsɜɹʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""Do tell us the real name of your country, and then when you are gone we shall know how to talk about you." To this luminous argument and remonstrance I could oppose nothing but assertion, and the whole party remained firmly convinced that I was for some reason or other deceiving them."
- "You're a man of strong assertions!"
- "Suppose you are given the semifactual assertion, "even if Nora had liked mathematics then she would have became^([sic]) a scientist" and then you find out that Nora did in fact become a scientist."
- "That's just a bare assertion."
- "Drivers' union ASLEF bluntly rebuffed the claim of unofficial action, calling it a lie. And Avanti West Coast was unable to provide any proof for its assertion, when questioned by RAIL."
- "However, that assertion is not backed up by US intelligence, sources told CNN. […] That claim came despite the Trump administration’s repeated assertions that the US had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program in military strikes last year."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈsɜɹʃən/
- British English: /əˈsɜːʃən/