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
- (geology) Having a coastal region of hard rocks that is separated from the sea by a belt of overlapping softer deposits.
- 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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