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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Facing or turned toward the observer: the obverse side of a statue.
  2. adj. Serving as a counterpart or complement.
  3. n. The side of a coin, medal, or badge that bears the principal stamp or design.
  4. n. The more conspicuous of two possible alternatives, cases, or sides: the obverse of this issue.
  5. n. Logic The counterpart of a proposition obtained by exchanging the affirmative for the negative quality of the whole proposition and then negating the predicate: The obverse of "Every act is predictable” is "No act is unpredictable.”

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Turned toward (one); facing: opposed to reverse, and applied in numismatics to that side of a coin or medal which bears the head or more important inscription or device.
  2. In botany, having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.
  3. n. In numismatics, the face or principal side of a coin or medal, as distinguished from the other side, called the reverse. See numismatics, and cuts under maravedi, medallion, and merk.
  4. n. Hence A second aspect of the same fact; a correlative proposition identically implying another.
  5. n. Specifically, in logic, the contranominal of the inverse of a proposition.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Turned or facing toward the observer.
  2. adj. Corresponding; complementary.
  3. n. The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
  4. n. logic The double negative of a statement e.g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
  2. n. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
  3. n. Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides
  2. n. the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design

Etymologies

  1. From Latin. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin obversus, past participle of obvertere, to turn toward; see obvert. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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