negation
suomi-englanti sanakirjanegation englannista suomeksi
kieltäminen
negaatio
kielto
Substantiivi
negation englanniksi
The act of negating something.
(quote-journal)
A denial or contradiction.
{{quote-text|en|year=1909|author=Thomas Hardy|title=The Flirt's Tragedy
A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition, or insertion, of the word "not". (Or, in logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
(quote-book)
The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
{{quote-web|en|date=2011-07-20|author=Edwin Mares| title=Propositional Functions| site=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy| url=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/propositional-function| accessdate=2012-07-15
A negative particle; a word, particularly an adverb, with a negative meaning: for instance, ''no'' and ''not'' in English, ''nōn'', ''haud'' and ''nē'' in Latin, οὐ and μή in ancient Greek.