noun
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Something that is posited; a postulate.
verb
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Assume the existence of; to postulate.
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Propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
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Put (something somewhere) firmly; to place or position.
noun
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A place or location.
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A post of employment; a job.
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A status or rank.
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Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
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An opinion, stand or stance.
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My position on this issue is unchanged.
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A posture.
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Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
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(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
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Stop running all over the field and play your position!
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An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm or institution.
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A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
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A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
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The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
Examples of posit in a Sentence
Experts posit that the body is a machine acting on the properties of thermodynamics, and that it has certain energy requirements.
All the standard interpretations of quantum theory posit that the cosmos changes in accordance with causal principles that are stochastic or probabilistic.
Non-human enemies are useful dramatically because they allow you to posit a humanity more highly evolved than our own, in which differences would not be settled militarily.
Possibilities include supersymmetry (SUSY) as well as models which posit the existence of spatial dimensions beyond our normal experience.
The primitive condition of all intelligence is that the ego shall posit, affirm or be aware of itself.
We can consequently treat rationality as a theoretical posit, much like electrons, viruses and the other theoretical posits of science.
Unlike Guided Evolution, it does not posit control over the path that Creation took.
Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers (POSIT)-A questionnaire used specifically for teenagers to assess alcohol and drug use.
That which we are compelled to "posit," which cannot be sublated, is that which is, and in the recognition of this lies the simple conception of being.
And these sensations are the sole material of our knowledge; but they are not given to us as a chaos but in definite groups and series, whence we come to know the relations of those reals, which, though themselves unknown, our sensations compel us to posit absolutely.
Having, however, in consequence, lost his professorship at Jena, he gradually altered his views, until at length he decided that God is not mere moral order, but also reason and will, yet without consciousness and personality; that not mankind but God is the absolute; that we are only its direct manifestations, free but finite spirits destined by God to posit in ourselves Nature as the material of duty, but blessed when we relapse into the absolute; that Nature, therefore, is the direct manifestation of man, and only the indirect manifestation of God; and, finally, that being is the divine idea or life, which is the reality behind appearances.
On the other we have a stage at which the rational but as yet not reasoned concepts developed in the medium of the psychological mechanism are subjected to processes of reflective comparison and analysis, and, with some modification, maintained against challenge, till at length the ultimate universals emerge, which rational insight can posit as certain, and the whole hierarchy of concepts from the " first " universals to Ta apEA are intuited in a coherent system.
When it is posited as we are wont to posit the things we see and taste and handle.