Definitions
1.NounSenses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
2.NounA proposition or statement supported by arguments.
3.NounA lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
4.NounA conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
5.NounAn affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
6.NounIn the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
7.NounSenses relating to music and prosody.
The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
8.NounThe action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
9.NounA depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.