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demonstration

/dem-uhn-strey-shuhn/US // ˌdɛm ənˈstreɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌdɛmənˈstreɪʃən) //

演示,示范,示威,演示文稿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
    • : something serving as proof or supporting evidence: They sent a check as a demonstration of their concern.
    • : a description or explanation, as of a process, illustrated by examples, specimens, or the like: a demonstration of methods of refining ore.
    • : the act of exhibiting the operation or use of a device, machine, process, product, or the like, as to a prospective buyer.
    • : an exhibition, as of feeling; display; manifestation: His demonstration of affection was embarrassing.
    • : a public exhibition of the attitude of a group of persons toward a controversial issue, or other matter, made by picketing, parading, etc.
    • : a show of military force or of offensive operations made to deceive an enemy.
    • : Mathematics. a logical presentation of the way in which given assumptions imply a certain result; proof.

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Examples

  • ClearFlame is also conducting a demonstration on a Cummins engine platform supported by funding from the Department of Energy.

  • Next month, the company will unveil a demonstration aircraft called the XB-1, a new supersonic-capable plane that is one-third the size of what they hope their commercial airliner will be.

  • Federal officials have arrested more than 300 people since the demonstrations began.

  • There’s a lot of demonstrations that were happening in LA for years that I didn’t know about until all of this.

  • It was the beginning of a week of unrest and protests that mirrored destructive demonstrations seen earlier this summer following police violence.

  • The reviews in themselves constitute a demonstration of why the regime restricts the Internet.

  • As Sarah and her sister and mother headed for the warmth of home, the demonstration continued.

  • Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.

  • There is an extreme demonstration of this divide in the nation.

  • For anyone who cared to watch, the event and its denouement provided a graphic demonstration that the Iron Curtain was crumbling.

  • But for the delinquency of his son, she had ocular demonstration; and her indignation was hardly to be repressed.

  • Already its demonstration had tried her temper, but to-night, for the first time, she felt her whole being set on edge by it.

  • He determined therefore to make a threatening demonstration by day and slip past it by night.

  • When they form short chains, demonstration of the capsule is necessary to distinguish them from streptococci.

  • This truth is as old as Homer, and its proofs are as capable of demonstration as a mathematical axiom.