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单词 negation
释义
negation
noun
uk
/nɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/nɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
[U]
theactionofcausingsomething to notexistor to have noeffect:
Theutternegation ofnaturalbeautywasappalling.
[UorC]
theexactoppositeof something, or acompletelackof it:
Sheseesfaithas a negation ofreason.
[U]
theactof saying no:
否认；否定；拒绝
Sheshookherheadin negation.她摇头表示拒绝。
[UorC]languagespecialized
theactof saying that asentenceorpartof asentenceis nottrue, or aninstanceof this:
否定
Negative declaratives areclausesin which sentential negation isexpressedby "not".否定陈述句是用“不”表示否定的句子。
More examples
  • In mystorythegoalis the negation ofviolence.
  • Hedescribedthemeasureas the negation of everyprinciplefor which the Prime Minister wassupposedtostand.
  • "Can Ibuyyou adrink?" he said. She gave atrembleof negation.
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  • killsomethingoff
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negate
(Definition ofnegationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
negation
noun
uk
/nɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/nɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
[U]
theactof saying no
否认；否定；拒绝
Sheshookherheadin negation.她摇头表示拒绝。
[UorC]languagespecialized
theactof saying that asentenceorpartof asentenceis nottrue, or aninstanceof this
否定
Negative declaratives areclausesin which sentential negation isexpressedby "not".否定陈述句是用“不”表示否定的句子。
More examples
  • In mystorythegoalis the negation ofviolence.
  • Hedescribedthemeasureas the negation of everyprinciplefor which the Prime Minister wassupposedtostand.
  • "Can Ibuyyou adrink?" he said. She gave atrembleof negation.

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negate

Examplesofnegation

negation
This process does require technical knowledge for rule construction and assumes that the user understandsnegationas failure extensively.
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In what sense is this 'theatre', new or otherwise, the 'negationof art'?
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Work has also been carried out in encoding into solutions disjunctions between attributes and negations of attribute values.
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Let be an operator on sets of closed formulas with atomicnegation.
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Working from the motivation given above, we now introduce the notion of a formula with atomicnegationformally.
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The latter type displays a fairly complex distribution, owing to the fact that it can sometimes appear in contexts without overtnegation.
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This is consistent with the behaviour of the usual unsound implementation ofnegationas failure.
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It might be a problem to examine whether the usages of weak and strict negations can be relevant to those operators.
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They realize view updates in normal logic programs and do not handle disjunctions nor explicitnegationin a program.
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The constraints on overloaded morphology in syntheticnegationdo not play a part in the evaluation and are low ranked (figure 15).
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Our main interest is in thenegationof this propriety.
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There are some minor references to agreement and refusal messages in studies on the development ofnegation.
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This, together with new notions of reduction, provides the calculus with a better handling ofnegation.
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The novelty was the emphasis on structural rules, thus individuating linearnegation.
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This analysis accounts successfully for most of the observed facts, including the obligatory adjacency betweennegationand the verb.
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