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Definition of Demonstration

1. Noun. A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view. "He gave the customer a demonstration"

2. Noun. A show of military force or preparedness. "He confused the enemy with feints and demonstrations"

3. Noun. A public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature). "There were violent demonstrations against the war"

4. Noun. Proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion.

5. Noun. A visual presentation showing how something works. "The lecturer shot off a pistol as a demonstration of the startle response"

Definition of Demonstration

1. n. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.

Definition of Demonstration

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Demonstration

1. 1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason. "Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others are called "proofs;" and where agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration." (Locke) 2. An expression, as of the feelings, by outward signs; a manifestation; a show. "Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief?" (Shak) "Loyal demonstrations toward the prince." (Prescott) 3. The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation. 4. (Mil) a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack. 5. The act of proving by the syllogistic process, or the proof itself. 6. A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions. Direct, or Positive, demonstration, one in which the correct conclusion is the immediate sequence of reasoning from axiomatic or established premises; opposed to Indirect, or Negative, demonstration (called also reductio ad absurdum), in which the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration that any other hypothesis must be incorrect. Origin: L. Demonstratio: cf. F. Demonstration. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Demonstration

demonomagy demonomania demonries demonry demons demonstrability demonstrable demonstrable demonstrably demonstrate

demonstrate demonstrated demonstrates demonstrating demonstration (current term) demonstration (current term) demonstrational demonstrations demonstration ophthalmoscope demonstrative

demonstratively demonstrativeness demonstratives demonstrative of(p) demonstrative pronoun demonstrator demonstrator demonstrators demoralisation demoralise

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