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contraposed

contraposed adjective: forming a contraposition. Also the simple past and past participle of contrapose.

Adjective

contraposed (not comparable)

  1. Forming a contraposition.
    • Inductive extrapolation, in effect, is grounded in the contraposed universal generalisation 'where the reason, so the target.'2001, Jonardon Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason, →ISBN, page 118
  2. Having a coastal region of hard rocks that is separated from the sea by a belt of overlapping softer deposits.
    • ...drift has been completely retrograded and the result is a very young, contraposed shoreline.1913, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, The Journal of Geology, page 539

Also used as

contraposed is also the simple past and past participle of contrapose.

Questions about contraposed

What does contraposed mean?
Contraposed means forming a contraposition.
What part of speech is contraposed?
Contraposed is an adjective.

Words near contraposed in the dictionary

  1. contrapathologic
  2. contraplex
  3. contrapolar
  4. contraponend
  5. contrapose
  6. contraposed
  7. contraposes
  8. contraposing
  9. contraposition
  10. contrapositions
  11. contrapositive

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