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English
Etymology
From sub- + contrary.
Pronunciation
Adjective
subcontrary (not comparable)
- Contrary in an inferior degree.
- (geometry) Having, or being in, a contrary order; said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
1852, John Mulcahy, Principles of Modern Geometry:Two planes drawn through the vertex of the cone parallel to the plane of the circular base , and that of a subcontrary section, are called by Chasles the cyclic planes of the cone
- (logic) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
Noun
subcontrary (plural subcontraries)
- (logic) Either of a pair of propositions at least one of which must be true