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Negation (disambiguation)

Negation is a connective in logic and an operation computing that maps true to false and false to true.

Negation may also refer to:

  • Negation (linguistics), a grammatical operation by which a proposition is replaced by one that states the opposite, as by the addition of not
  • Negation (comics), a CrossGen comic
  • The Negation, a 2004 album by the Polish metal band Decapitated
  • Negationism, an illegitimate historical revisionist process that minimizes, denies or ignores essential facts
  • Negation (poem), a 1918 poem by Wallace Stevens

Mathematics

  • Negation proper, in various logical and algebraic structures
  • Additive inverse, the operation in mathematics that maps positive numbers to negative numbers and vice versa, also known as sign change and opposite number

See also

  • Negative (disambiguation)
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