different between fact vs axiom

English

Etymology

From Latin factum (“a deed, act, exploit; in Medieval Latin also state, condition, circumstance”), neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faci? (“do, make”). Doublet of feat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt

Noun

fact (countable and uncountable, plural facts)

1. Something actual as opposed to invented.
2. Something which is real.

   Gravity is a fact, not a theory.

3. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.

4. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.

5. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.

6. (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
7. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.
8. (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact, / Against that nation [...].

9. (obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.

Antonyms

• (Something actual): fiction

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• value
• opinion
• belief

References

• fact at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fact in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "Conway: 'Alternative Facts'" Merriam-Webster's Trend Watch Merriam-Webster. 2017.

Interjection

fact

1. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

Anagrams

• acft

English

Etymology

From Middle French axiome in the 15th century, from Latin axi?ma (“axiom; principle”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (axí?ma, “that which is thought to fit, a requisite, that which a pupil is required to know beforehand, a self-evident principle”), from ????? (axió?, “to think fit or worthy, to require, to demand”), from ????? (áxios, “fit, worthy”, literally “weighing as much as; of like value”), from ??? (ág?, “I drive”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?aks.?.?m/
• (General American) enPR: ?k's??m, IPA^(key): /?æks.i.?m/
• Hyphenation: ax?i?om

Noun

axiom (plural axioms or axiomata) (the latter is becoming less common and is sometimes considered archaic)

1. (philosophy) A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
2. (logic, mathematics, proof theory) A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context).
3. An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.

Synonyms

• (philosophy, mathematics): axioma (now rare)
• (logic, mathematics): postulate

Hypernyms

• (logic): well-formed formula, wff, WFF

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): axiom of choice, axiom of infinity, axiom of pairing, axiom of power set, axiom of regularity, axiom of union, completeness axiom, parallel axiom

Holonyms

• (logic): formal system

Derived terms

• axiomatic
• axiomatical
• axiomatically
• axiomatise, axiomatize
• axiomatisation, axiomatization

Translations

See also

References

• axiom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• axiom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• axiom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• amoxi

Czech

Noun

axiom m

1. axiom

Derived terms

• axiom výb?ru m

Related terms

• axiomatický
• axiomatizovat
• axiomatizace

Swedish

Noun

axiom n

1. axiom

Declension

Related terms

• axiomatisk