Dictionary Check: argument

"argument" is a valid word!

Scrabble 11 points
Words with Friends 15 points

Definition

noun

a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true

Example: "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
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a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

Example: "they were involved in a violent argument"
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a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal

Example: "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
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a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie

Example: "the editor added the argument to the poem"
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(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program

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a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable

Example: "if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable"

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