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con•tra•po•si•tion

Pronunciation: (kon"tru-pu-zish'un), [key]
—n.
1. placement opposite or against.
2. opposition, contrast, or antithesis.
3. Logic.the inference drawn from a proposition by negating its terms and changing their order, as by inferring “Not B implies not A” from “A implies B.”

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