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/nəˈgāt/,
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negated, past participle; negates, 3rd person singular present; negating, present participle; negated, past tense;
  1. Nullify; make ineffective
    • - alcohol negates the effects of the drug
  2. Make (a clause, sentence, or proposition) negative in meaning

  3. Deny the existence of (something)
    • - negating the political nature of education
  1. contradict: be in contradiction with
  2. prove negative; show to be false
  3. neutralize: make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
  4. (negation) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
  5. (negation) the speech act of negating
  6. (negation) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
  7. (Negation (comics)) Negation was a comic book series published from CrossGen. Tony Bedard was the writer for the entire run. Paul Pelletier was the artist for most of the issues, with an occasional fill-in artist taking an issue here and there.
  8. (Negation (rhetoric)) In rhetoric, where the role of the interpreter is taken into consideration as a non-negligible factor, negation bears a much wider range of functions and meanings than it does in logic, where the interpretation of signs for negation is constrained by axioms to a few ...
  9. (The Negation) The Negation is the third studio album released by the Polish technical death metal band Decapitated. It was released March 9, 2004 through Earache Records.
  10. To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict; To nullify or cause to be ineffective; To be negative; bring or cause negative results; To perform the NOT operation on
  11. (Negation) the opposite of the original statement.
  12. (Negation) "Well, I can't tell you what it is, but I can tell you what it is not...." Definition by negation is an attempt to define either the contradictory or the contraries of a term: "The even numbers are those whole numbers that are evenly divisible by two, and the odd numbers [here comes ...
  13. (Negation) A truth function that is true when its argument is false, and false when its argument is true (in 2-valued logics). Also the operator or connective denoting this function; also the proposition built from this operator. Notation: ~p, also ¬p, also, p with a bar on top. ...
  14. (Negation) A truth-functional operation, symbolized by the truth-functional symbol "~" and usually translated "not."  The negation of a claim is true if and only if the claim is false.
  15. (Negation) By clause (1) of the syntax, the negation sign ~ may only appear as prefixed to an atomic formula. ...
  16. (Negation) Denial; symbolized by the tilde or curl, ~p simply means “it is not the case that p” and may be read as “not-p.”
  17. (Negation) Negative one times any number is equal to the opposite of that number.
  18. (Negation) a defence mechanism by means of which repressed life events may return to consciousness in a ‘negative’ form. A subject will thus refute their origin and reject any personal involvement with such occurrences.
  19. (negation) Not. Of a boolean, the other one.
  20. (negation) [syntax,grammar] In a very general sense the process of denying something. There are many means of saying that something is not the case and most languages reflect this fact in their modes of expression for negation. ...
  21. There are 3 types of negation. There are cards that negate summons, cards that negate effects of monsters, magic, and trap, and there are cards that negate attacks. Something that is negated doesn't happen. ...
  22. v.  deny or disprove the existence of (sb/sth)