negation meaning
EN
[-eɪʃən] WNegation
- In logic, negation, also called logical complement, is an operation that takes a proposition p to another proposition "not p", written ¬p, which is interpreted intuitively as being true when p is false and false when p is true.
FR négation 
- NounPLnegationsPREnega-SUF-ation
- (uncountable) The act of negating something.
- (countable) A denial or contradiction.
- (logic, countable) A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".).
- You get the negation of a proposition if you insert "not" (or some equivalent expression) into it in such a way as to form a contradictory of it.
- (logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
- (uncountable) The act of negating something.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- By varying the negations of the second premises and conclusion in the original argument, we can easily get all four lines of the table for the tribar.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of negation in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
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- en negations
- en negational
- en negationism
- en negationist
- en negationists
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "negation" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.