Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To turn (something) so as to present another side or aspect to view.
- transitive verb To alter the appearance of.
- transitive verb Logic To subject (a proposition) to obversion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn toward some person or thing, or toward a position regarded as the front.
- In logic, to form or take the obverse of (a proposition).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To turn toward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
turn so as to show anotherside
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So as to obvert the necessity of owning an automobile, a hybrid van will make periodic trips from the community to shopping malls, an airport, a bus terminal, a train station, and entertainment venues.
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So as to obvert the necessity to own an automobile, a hybrid van will make periodic trips from the community to shopping malls, an airport, a bus terminal, a train station, and entertainment venues.
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Again, by the principle of Excluded Middle, if any term be denied of a subject, its contradictory may be affirmed: to obvert negative propositions, then, the rule is -- Remove the negative sign, and for the predicate substitute its contradictory term.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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To obvert affirmative propositions, then, the rule is -- Insert the negative sign, and for the predicate substitute its contradictory term.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Y; though, if we obvert it into _All X is some not-Y_, we have (in the same sense, of course, as in the above affirmative forms) X equated with part at least of 'not-Y.'
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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To reduce it ostensively let us call it Faksnoko, where k means 'obvert the foregoing premise.'
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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For E., when obverted, becomes A.; every A, when converted, degenerates into I.; every I., when obverted, becomes O.; O cannot be converted, and to obvert it again is merely to restore the former proposition: so that the whole process moves on to inevitable dissolution.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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I'm pretty sure (this time) that Civil3d doesn't allow that and Autodesk once told me that they intend to look into that. i've tried a few things and I just make the pipe style so that the invert and obvert do not plot.
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I like to use a profile layout, not only can you use slope labels, etc. but it makes it a snap if you need I.E. at short You're correct, Civil 3D will not do that. i've tried a few things and I just make the pipe style so that the invert and obvert do not plot.
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I'm pretty sure (this time) that Civil3d doesn't allow that and Autodesk once told me that they intend to look into that. i've tried a few things and I just make the pipe style so that the invert and obvert do not plot.
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