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Demonstration - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Demonstration : (noun)
1: a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight
or view; "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the
customer a demonstration" [syn: presentation, presentment]
2: a show of military force or preparedness; "he confused the
enemy with feints and demonstrations"
3: a public display of group feelings (usually of a political
nature); "there were violent demonstrations against the
war" [syn: manifestation]
4: proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition
proving an asserted conclusion [syn: monstrance]
5: a visual presentation showing how something works; "the
lecture was accompanied by dramatic demonstrations"; "the
lecturer shot off a pistol as a demonstration of the
startle response" [syn: demo]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Demonstration : \Dem`on*stra"tion\, n. [L. demonstratio: cf. F.
d['e]monstration.]
1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof;
especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt;
indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.
Those intervening ideas which serve to show the
agreement of any two others are called ``proofs;''
and where agreement or disagreement is by this means
plainly and clearly perceived, it is called
demonstration. --Locke.
2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a
manifestation; a show.
Did your letters pierce the queen to any
demonstration of grief? --Shak.
Loyal demonstrations toward the prince. --Prescott.
3. (Anat.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or
other anatomical preparation.
4. (Mil.) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement
indicating an attack.
5. (Logic) The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or
the proof itself.
6. (Math.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain
result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; --
these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously
established propositions.
Direct, or Positive, demonstration (Logic & Math.), one
in which the correct conclusion is the immediate sequence
of reasoning from axiomatic or established premises; --
opposed to
Indirect, or Negative, demonstration (called also
reductio ad absurdum), in which the correct conclusion
is an inference from the demonstration that any other
hypothesis must be incorrect.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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DEMONSTRATION. Whatever is said or written to designate a thing or person.
For example, a gift of so much money, with a fund particularly referred to
for its payment, so that if the fund be not the testator's property at his
death, the legacy will fail; this is called a demonstrative legacy. 4 Ves.
751; Lownd. Leg. 85; Swinb. 485.
2. A legacy given to James, who married my cousin, is demonstrative;
these expressions present the idea of a demonstration; there are many James,
but only one who married my cousin. Vide Ayl. Pand. 130; Dig. 12, 1, 6; Id.
35, 1, 34 Inst. 2, 20, 30.
3. ByDemonstration : is also understood that proof which excludes all
possibility of error; for example, mathematical deductions.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Demonstration |
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Jocassels: @Firefly2020 That brought a tear to my eye. It was beautiful. What a beautiful Demonstration of man and horse communicating perfectly. |
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