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Definitions: OBVERSION |
OBVERSIONNoun1. The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception." 2. The act of turning toward or downward. |
Etymology: Obversion \Ob*ver"sion\, noun. [Latin expression obversio turning towards.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Language | Translations for "OBVERSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | обратно съждение, обратно твърдение. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | obversionay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "OBVERSION" (pronounced 'Ob*ver"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-n-o-o-r-s-v" | |
-2 letters: boonies, bovines, erosion, renvois, version. | |
-3 letters: bevors, boners, bonier, borons, bovine, brines, envois, irones, nooser, nosier, orison, ovibos, ovines, renvoi, ribose, robins, senior, sooner, vireos. | |
-4 letters: bevor, biers, bines, birse, bison, boner, bones, boons, boors, bores, borne, boron, boson, brens, bries, brine, brins, brios, broos, brose, ebons, envoi, eosin, irone, irons, noirs, noise. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-n-o-o-r-s-v" | |
+2 letters: observation. | |
+3 letters: observations, overbrowsing. | |
+4 letters: bioconversion, nonabsorptive, observational. | |
+5 letters: bioconversions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 42 56 45 52 53 49 4F 4E |
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