demonstration
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/
demonstration
- The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- An event at which something will be demonstrated.
- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
- A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
- A show of military force.
- A mathematical proof.
- ante 1697 John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
- He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
- ante 1697 John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
- French: démonstration
- German: Demonstration
- Italian: dimostrazione
- Portuguese: demonstração
- Russian: демонстра́ция
- Spanish: demostración
- French: démonstration
- German: Demonstration, Vorführung
- Italian: dimostrazione
- Portuguese: demonstração
- Russian: демонстра́ция
- Spanish: demostración
- French: manifestation, démonstration
- German: Demonstration, Kundgebung
- Italian: dimostrazione
- Portuguese: demonstração, mostra
- Russian: демонстра́ция
- Spanish: manifestación
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