CONTRAPOSITION


Meaning of CONTRAPOSITION in English

/kon'treuh peuh zish"euhn/ , n.

1. placement opposite or against.

2. opposition, contrast, or antithesis.

3. Logic. the inference drawn from a proposition by negating its terms and changing their order, as by inferring "Not B implies not A" from "A implies B."

[ 1545-55; contraposition- (s. of contrapositio ). See CONTRA- 1 , POSITION ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .