Negation (disambiguation)

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Negation has several meanings:

  • -x, an operation in number theory that maps positive numbers to negative numbers and the other way around, equivalent to reversing the sign of a number
  • Negation, an operation in logic and computing that maps true to false and false to true
  • Negation (rhetoric), a concept in grammar or philology that reverses the meaning of a statement
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