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Word: proposition
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Meaning:
Noun:
- countable An idea or a plan offered.
- business settings The terms of a transaction offered.
- logic The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.
- mathematics An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
- mathematics As a special case, textbooks often, and papers sometimes, label an assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be a theorem, a proposition. Normally this is part of a numerical reference system ('''Proposition 3.2''', '''Lemma 3.3''', '''Theorem 3.4''')
- US|politics In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- uncountable The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
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Verb:
- transitive To propose a plan to.
- transitive To propose some illicit behaviour to, often sexual in nature
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