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General dictionaries General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. posit: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. posit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. posit: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. posit: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. posit: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. posit: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Posit: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. posit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. posit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. posit: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. POSIT, posit: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. posit: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. POSIT: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Posit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. posit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. posit: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Posit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. posit: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  19. posit: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. posit: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  21. posit: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. posit: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. posit: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. posit: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. posit-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. posit: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  2. POSIT: Financial dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. POSIT: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. POSIT: Acronym Finder [home, info]

Quick definitions (posit)

noun:  (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
verb:  take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom ("He posited three basic laws of nature")
verb:  put (something somewhere) firmly ("She posited her hand on his shoulder")
verb:  put before

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