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    • argument :a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
      • it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true

    • argument :a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
      • they were involved in a violent argument

    • argument :a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
      • the argument over foreign aid goes on and on

    • argument :a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
      • the editor added the argument to the poem

    • argument :a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
      • I can't follow your line of reasoning

    • argument :(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program

      • argument :a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable

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