Assertion vs Disengagement - What's the difference?
assertion | disengagement |
The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
(computing) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
Release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement.
* 1818 , , Rob Roy , ch. 10,
*:My thanks to you for my speedy disengagement from the ridiculous accusation of Morris.
The separation or release of a chemical.
*1836 , , Astoria , ch. 26,
*:Others have endeavored to account for these discharges of "mountain artillery" on humbler principles; attributing them . . . to the disengagement of hydrogen, produced by subterraneous beds of coal in a state of ignition.
(dated) Leisure]]; relief from [[responsibility, responsibilities or onerous activities.
(military, politics) Withdrawal from combat, confrontation, or the assertion of influence.
Termination of an agreement to be married.
(fencing) A circular movement of the blade that blocks an opponent's parry.
*1895 , , Taquisara , ch. 23,
*:There was a quick flash, a disengagement , a feint, a lunge that was like a man's, and as her long left arm shot out like lightning, her foil bent nearly double.
(medicine, obstetrics) The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal.
