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Demonstration   /dˌɛmənstrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Demonstration

noun
1.
A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view.  Synonyms: presentation, presentment.  "He gave the customer a demonstration"
2.
A show of military force or preparedness.
3.
A public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature).  Synonym: manifestation.
4.
Proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion.  Synonym: monstrance.
5.
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



... at his schooner the next morning to help the crew unload was the signal for a veritable native-son demonstration. Not only had the story of Code's sudden liberation and Nat's as sudden imprisonment spread like wild-fire clear to Southern Head Light, twenty miles away, but the tale ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... subsequently in the same determinate way from previous mutations, that evolution, though in a number of divergent directions from one ancestral form, would proceed along definite lines, and that there would be nothing accidental about it. We should thus arrive at a demonstration of what Eimer called orthogenesis, or evolution ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... gave a demonstration of not getting a light by the approved old Indian fashion of rubbing sticks and striking sparks from ...
— Pee-Wee Harris Adrift • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... Grand prize Seeds of the trees Instruments and tools used in forestry Forest nursery and demonstration plantation Photographs Native trees with botanical ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis
... band resumed the journey, it became evident that May-may-gwan was to be punished for her demonstration of the night before. Her place in the bow of old Moose Cow's canoe was taken by a little girl, and she was left to follow as best ...
— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White


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