assert

Etymology
From, perfect passive participle of , from +.

Verb

 * 1) To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
 * He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
 * 1) To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
 * to assert one's authority
 * Salman Rushdie has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work.
 * 1) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
 * to assert our rights and liberties
 * 1)  To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
 * Since going to therapy, I've found it much easier to assert myself.
 * 1)  To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
 * 2)  To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
 * 1)  To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
 * 2)  To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
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 * Czech:
 * Danish: forsikre, bedyre
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aserti
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: განცხადება
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 확고히 하다,
 * Latin: assevērō, affirmō
 * Maori: whakanonoi, whakatūturu, whakakoia, whakakoikoia
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese: assertar,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: твр́дити, за̀ја̄мчити
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: tvrdiť
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: стверджувати, ствердити


 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Slovak: uplatniť, nárokovať si
 * Spanish: ;


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: whakawhena, whakanonoi
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: zastávať
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian: відстоювати


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:, far valere
 * Maori: whakanonoi
 * Spanish: ,


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Noun

 * 1)   conditional statement that checks the validity of a value