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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Assertion \As*ser"tion\, n. [L. assertio, fr. asserere.]
     1. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive
        declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted;
        position advanced.
  
              There is a difference between assertion and
              demonstration.                        --Macaulay.
  
     2. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's
        rights or prerogatives.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  assertion
       n 1: a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting
            evidence were necessary) [syn: {averment}, {asseveration}]
       2: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn:
           {affirmation}, {statement}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  assertion
       
          <programming> 1. An expression which, if false, indicates an
          {error}.  Assertions are used for {debugging} by catching
          {can't happen} errors.
       
          2. In {logic programming}, a new {fact} or {rule} added to the
          database by the program at {run time}.  This is an
          {extralogical} or impure feature of logic programming
          languages.
       
          (1997-06-30)
       
       

From eng-fra [engfra]:

  assertion
  	[əsəːʃən]
  	assertion
  
  

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