Definition of opposition
- n. - The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or
defeat; resistance.
- n. - The state of being placed over against; situation so as
to front something else.
- n. - Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or
purpose; antipathy.
- n. - That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the
aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and
parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power.
- n. - The situation of a heavenly body with respect to
another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it;
especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude
differs from that of the sun 180¡; -- signified by the symbol /; as, /
/ /, opposition of Jupiter to the sun.
- n. - The relation between two propositions when, having the
same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or
in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a
different form.