Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term opposed or contrary to another term; an antithetical term.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of
synonym .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
antithesis - noun
antonym
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He keeps the nice, r0-independent part of "A"; imagine that the cutoff-dependent one is removed by a boundary counterterm.
The Reference Frame 2010
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