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Argument

noun

A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true. Synonym: statement.

A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement. Synonyms: arguing, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt.

A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal. Synonyms: argumentation, debate.

A summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie. Synonym: literary argument.

(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program. Synonym: parameter.

A variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable.

A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning. Synonyms: argumentation, line, line of reasoning, logical argument.

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"Argument" Quotes from Famous Books

... see fit to oppose any argument to this phenomenal simplicity, and Mr. Dimmidge, after settling his bill with the foreman, and enjoining the editor to the strictest secrecy regarding the origin of the "personal notice," took up his gun and departed, leaving the treasury ...

— Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... the irritation and excitement which come from the gathering of the whiteish matter under the foreskin at the beginning of the glands. This irritation being removed, the boy is less apt to tamper with his sexual organs. The argument seems a good one, especially when we call to mind the high physical state of those people ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... After this argument, Madame Wang indulged in further thought. "Never mind," she then observed, "just you bring over this allowance and pay it to me. And there will be no need to supply another girl. I'll hand over this tael ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... Podgers' specific at your orders last year, and believe in it. Why, why am I to recant and accept the Rodgers' articles now?" There is no help for it; the faithful proselytizer, if she cannot convince by argument, bursts into tears, and the refusant finds himself, at the end of the contest, taking down the bolus, and saying, ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... could have been the creature of a dream. Still, that is nothing to the point; the feature of interest is the happening of the thing just at that time, instead of at an earlier or later time, which is argument that its origin lay ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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