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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



... whom, as I have already said, I had felt warmly drawn when he was Prince Friedrich, was expected home from a long visit to England. The reports received of his stay there had greatly rejoiced my patriotic soul. While this homely monarch, who shrank from all pomp and noisy demonstration, was in England, it happened that the Tsar Nicholas arrived quite unexpectedly on a visit to the Queen. In his honour great festivities and military reviews were held, in which our King, much against his will, was obliged to participate, ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... has done, the poet and the believer begins. Whether he has got hold of the true Christ is another matter; but that the Christ he preaches moves the human heart as much as—and in the case of the London artisan, more than—the current orthodox presentation of him, I begin to have ocular demonstration. ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... hearing for his utterances, but her sensation-loving soul hankered after something more dramatic than mere vocal demonstration. ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki

... wondered that, after writing with so much warmth and affection, both of and to Harry, he met him without any demonstration of feeling; and his short peremptory manner removed all surprise that poor Hector had been so forlorn with him at Maplewood, and turned, with all his heart, to Dr. May. They were especially impressed at the immediate subsidence ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

... "Ortelius, in his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,' the first edition of which was in 1570, gives a list of about 150 geographical treatises."—Hallam's "Literature of Europe," c. xvii. 53.] and other instruments of this Art for demonstration in the common schooles, to the singular pleasure, and generall contentment of my auditory. In continuance of time, and by reason principally of my insight in this study, I grew familiarly acquainted with the chiefest Captaines at sea, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt


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