OBVERSION

  

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OBVERSION

Definitions: OBVERSION

OBVERSION

Noun

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Obversion \Ob*ver"sion\, noun. [Latin expression obversio turning towards.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translations: OBVERSION

Language Translations for "OBVERSION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

обратно съждение, обратно твърдение. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obversionay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "OBVERSION"

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)

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Anagrams: OBVERSION

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OBVERSION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 42 56 45 52 53 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    -...    ...-    .    .-.    ...    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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