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Demonstration

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What's The Definition Of Demonstration?
[n] a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the customer a demonstration"
[n] a show of military force or preparedness; "he confused the enemy with feints and demonstrations" [n] a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature); "there were violent demonstrations against the war" [n] proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion [n] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Demonstration: demo | manifestation | monstrance | presentation | presentment Related Terms | Find terms related to Demonstration: absolute indication | allegorization | alphabet | art | beef | bitch | blazon | blueprint | boycott | bravura | brilliancy | burden of proof | case | case in point | challenge | charactering | characterization | chart | choreography | citation | clarification | complaint | compunction | conclusive evidence | confirmation | conventional representation | cracking | cross reference | damning evidence | dance notation | daring | dash | decipherment | decoding | deduction | deductive reasoning | delineation | demo | demur | demurrer | demythologization | depiction | depictment | description | determination | diagram | discourse | discourse of reason | discursive reason | display | drama | dramatics | drawing | eclat | editing | elucidation | emblem | emendation | enactment | enlightenment | establishment | etalage | euhemerism | evidence | example | exception | exegesis | exemplar | exemplification | exhibit | exhibition | exhibitionism | explanation | explication | exponent | exposition | expostulation | exposure | expounding | false front | fanfaronade | figuration | figure | flair | flaunt | flaunting | flourish | grievance | grievance committee | hieroglyphic | histrionics | howl | iconography | ideogram | illumination | illustration | imagery | imaging | incontrovertible evidence | indication | indignation meeting | indisputable evidence | induction | inductive reasoning | instance | ironclad proof | item | kick | letter | light | limning | logical thought | logogram | logograph | manifestation | map | march | musical notation | nonviolent protest | notation | object lesson | objection | onus | onus probandi | opening | ostentation | pageant | pageantry | parade | particular | performance | philosophy | picketing | pictogram | picturization | plan | portraiture | portrayal | prefigurement | presentation | presentment | printing | production | projection | proof | protest | protest demonstration | protestation | qualm | quotation | rally | ratiocination | rationale | rationalism | rationality | rationalization | rationalizing | realization | reason | reasonableness | reasoning | reference | relevant instance | remonstrance | remonstration | rendering | rendition | representation | representative | retrospective | schema | score | script | scruple | settlement | sham | show | showing | showing-off | simplification | sit-in | solution | sophistry | specious reasoning | spectacle | splash | splurge | squawk | staginess | strike | substantiation | sure sign | sweet reason | syllabary | symbol | tablature | teach-in | testimony | theatrics | type | typical example | unfolding | unfoldment | unlocking | unmistakable sign | unveiling | varnishing day | vaunt | verification | vernissage | writing See Also | Boston Tea Party | display | dissent | exemplification | exhibition | exposure | expression | illustration | lecture demonstration | manifestation | objection | performance | proof | protest | protest march | reflection | reflexion | show | show | visual communication | work-in Demonstration In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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