Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FALSE

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Definitions of FALSE

1. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
2. Based on factually incorrect premises.
3. Spurious, artificial.
4. Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
5. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
6. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
7. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
8. in a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
9. One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
10. Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
11. (music) Out of tune.
12. (electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
13. (obsolete) To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
14. (obsolete) To counterfeit, to forge.
15. (obsolete) To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
16. (electronics) one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 0.

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Examples of Using FALSE in a Sentence

• The Naturalization Act of 1798 increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act of 1798 allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gave the president additional powers to detain non-citizens during times of war, and the Sedition Act of 1798 criminalized false and malicious statements about the federal government.
• A paradox, such as "this sentence is false" can also be considered to be an antinomy; in this case, for the sentence to be true, it must be false.
• In other words, it asks whether the variables of a given Boolean formula can be consistently replaced by the values TRUE or FALSE in such a way that the formula evaluates to TRUE.
• Cognitivism (ethics), the philosophical view that ethical sentences express propositions and are capable of being true or false.
• According to Jude, these opponents are within the Christian community, but are not true Christians: they are scoffers, false teachers, malcontents, given to their lusts, and so on.
• A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath".
• Environmental skepticism is the belief that statements by environmentalists, and the environmental scientists who support them, are false or exaggerated.
• A false document is a technique by which an author aims to increase verisimilitude in a work of fiction by inventing and inserting or mentioning documents that appear to be factual.
• A factoid is either a false statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information.
• The False Claims Act of 1863 (FCA) is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies (typically federal contractors) who defraud governmental programs.
• In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning.
• False cognates are pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different etymologies; they can be within the same language or from different languages, even within the same family.
• A false etymology (fake etymology or pseudo-etymology) is a false theory about the origin or derivation of a specific word or phrase.
• The English translation using Hook is a false cognate of the Dutch Hoek, but has become commonplace (in official government records in English, the name tends not to get translated and Hoek van Holland is used).
• For example, P if and only if Q means that P is true whenever Q is true, and the only case in which P is true is if Q is also true, whereas in the case of P if Q, there could be other scenarios where P is true and Q is false.
• A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available.
• The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true.
• In Boolean logic, the majority function (also called the median operator) is the Boolean function that evaluates to false when half or more arguments are false and true otherwise, i.
• Proponents of nuclear disarmament say that it would lessen the probability of nuclear war occurring, especially considering accidents or retaliatory strikes from false alarms.
• It is based on the religious belief that the universe was created by a divine being, within the past six to ten thousand years (in keeping with flood geology), and that the presence of objective, verifiable evidence that the universe is older than approximately ten millennia is due to the creator introducing false evidence that makes the universe appear significantly older.
• The second view, the way of "Doxa", or opinion, describes the world of appearances, in which one's sensory faculties lead to conceptions which are false and deceitful.
• Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.
• In logic, the semantic principle (or law) of bivalence states that every declarative sentence expressing a proposition (of a theory under inspection) has exactly one truth value, either true or false.
• Making false accusations and the general distrust of other people also frequently accompany paranoia.
• Langmuir said a pathological science is an area of research that simply will not "go away"—long after it was given up on as "false" by the majority of scientists in the field.

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