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contraposition

Meaning of contraposition

noun

conversion of a proposition from all A is B to all not-B is not-A.

mid 16th century: from late Latin contrapositio(n- ), from the verb contraponere, from contra- ‘against’ + ponere ‘to place’.

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Hyphenation of contraposition

con-tra-po-si-tion

  • It consists of 5 syllables and 14 letters.
  • contraposition is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables