contraposed

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English

Adjective

contraposed (not comparable)

  1. (logic) Forming a contraposition.
    • 2001, Jonardon Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason, →ISBN, page 118:
      Inductive extrapolation, in effect, is grounded in the contraposed universal generalisation 'where the reason, so the target.'
  2. (geology) Having a coastal region of hard rocks that is separated from the sea by a belt of overlapping softer deposits.
    • 1913, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, The Journal of Geology, page 539:
      ...drift has been completely retrograded and the result is a very young, contraposed shoreline.

Verb

contraposed

  1. simple past and past participle of contrapose