ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Contraposed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Contraposed is an adjective meaning (logic) Forming a contraposition.

Meaning

(logic) Forming a contraposition.

More Meanings

  1. (geology) Having a coastal region of hard rocks that is separated from the sea by a belt of overlapping softer deposits.
  2. simple past and past participle of contrapose

Example Sentences

...drift has been completely retrograded and the result is a very young, contraposed shoreline.
Inductive extrapolation, in effect, is grounded in the contraposed universal generalisation 'where the reason, so the target.'

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subcontrary, counterpositional, juxtapositive, contraspective, contrapuntal, contrariant.

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