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Demonstration

noun

A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view. Synonyms: presentation, presentment. "He gave the customer a demonstration"

A show of military force or preparedness.

A public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature). Synonym: manifestation.

Proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion. Synonym: monstrance.

A visual presentation showing how something works. Synonym: demo. "The lecturer shot off a pistol as a demonstration of the startle response"

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"Demonstration" Quotes from Famous Books

... clenched the matter. As I put my eye to the instrument, there, straying across the circular field, were the broad gray stripes, each with its dark line of medulla obscured at intervals by rings of tiny bubbles. The demonstration was conclusive. This was the very man. Humanly speaking, no error or fallacy ...

— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman

... ago public announcements were made that two days' "demonstration" would be made in this town, in favour of the repeal of the union, and that Mr Daniel O'Connell, jun., youngest son of the Liberator, and one or two others of inferior note would attend. The meeting took place on Tuesday night last, in the ...

— The Economist - Volume 1, No. 3 • Various

... as a woman is piqued with you, something can always be done; it is only when she becomes careless and unmindful of what you do, or say, or look, or think, that the game looks hopeless. Therefore it was that he regarded this demonstration of anger as ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

... she acknowledged her master with an exuberant rapture that had not the faintest suspicion of coyness, and although Jim often blushed under it, and experienced a great uneasiness in the course of a public demonstration, Aurora showed a barbaric disregard for contemporary opinion. She felt no shame in the presence of her emotions, and consequently had no impulse to hide them. She beguiled Jim from his work to take long rambles; ...

— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson

... women who do want the suffrage must wait until those who are now indifferent, or even hostile, can be converted from their position. Gentlemen, we declare that theory is preposterous. It is true that the exercise of an independent sovereignty necessitates the demonstration of a very considerable amount of independence. A rebel state that cannot break its own blockade may not call upon a foreign power to move from its neutrality to do so. But the demand for equal suffrage is in nowise ...

— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson

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