AXIOM
\ˈaksɪəm], \ˈaksɪəm], \ˈa_k_s_ɪ__ə_m]\
Definitions of AXIOM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."
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An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.
By Oddity Software
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A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."
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An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.
By Noah Webster.
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A self-evident truth; a proposition or statement generally believed to be true; one of the principles of an art or science.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A self-evident truth: a universally received principle in an art or science.
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AXIOMATIC, AXIOMATICAL.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Greek] A self-evident and necessary truth or proposition ;-an established principle in art or science.
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