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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ob•ver•sion (ob vûr′zhən, -shən),USA pronunciation n. - an act or instance of obverting.
- something that is obverted.
- Philosophy[Logic.]a form of inference in which a negative proposition is obtained from an affirmative, or vice versa, as "None of us is immortal'' is obtained by obversion from "All of us are mortal.''
- Late Latin obversiōn- (stem of obversiō) a turning toward, equivalent. to obvers(us) (see obverse) + -iōn- -ion
- 1840–50
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