assert

From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + serō (“join, range in a row”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈsɜːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈsɜɹt/, [əˈsɝt]

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t

assert (third-person singular simple present asserts, present participle asserting, simple past and past participle asserted)

1. To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
   • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 168:

     Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.

   he would often assert his beliefs to us

2. 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

3. 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

   The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

4. (programming) To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.
5. (electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.

• deny
• deassert

• affirm
• asseverate
• aver

assert (plural asserts)

1. (computer science) an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.

• “assert” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.

• assert in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• assert in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• assert at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Saters, TASers, Tasers, Tesars, asters, reasts, setars, stares, stears, tarses, tasers

assert m (plural asserts)

1. (programming) assert (conditional statement that checks the validity of a value)