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Opposition may mean or refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

Opposition (astronomy), a term describing the position of a celestial body
Opposition (politics), an organised political group that serves to offer opposing views to the government
Opposition (parliamentary), a form of political opposition
Opposition (chess), a term describing the position of the kings relative to each other
Opposition proceeding
Opposition of the thumb

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Categories: Disambiguation Opposition is a term used in positional astronomy and astrology to indicate when one celestial body is on the opposite side of the sky when viewed from a particular place (usually the Earth). ... This politics-related article is a stub. ... Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system. ... // Definition Diagram 1. ... An opposition proceeding is an administrative process available under the patent and trademark law of most juridictions which allows third parties to dispute the validity of a granted patent or trademark. ... In human anatomy, the thumb is the first digit on a hand. ...

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SEP: The Traditional Square of Opposition (4440 words)
	The point of this entry is to trace its history from the vantage point of the end of the twentieth century, along with closely related doctrines bearing on empty terms.
	The square of opposition is a group of theses embodied in a diagram.
	Its doctrine includes that of the square of opposition, but the discussion of the O form is so vague that nobody could pin down its exact truth conditions, and there is certainly no awareness indicated of problems of existential import.

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