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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fact \Fact\, n. [L. factum, fr facere to make or do Cf {Feat}, {Affair}, {Benefit}, {Defect}, {Fashion}, and {-fy}.] 1. A doing making, or preparing. [Obs.] A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. --B. Jonson 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act an event; a circumstance. What might instigate him to this devilish fact I am not able to conjecture. --Evelyn. He who most excels in fact of arms. --Milton. 3. Reality; actuality; truth; as he in fact excelled all the rest; the fact is he was beaten. 4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes even when false, improperly put by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done or supposed to be done a thing supposed or asserted to be done as history abounds with false facts. I do not grant the fact --De Foe. This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true. --Roger Long. Note: TheTerm fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with low as attorney at low and attorney in fact issue in low and issue in fact There is also a grand distinction between low and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact the former the low --Burrill Bouvier. {Accessary before}, or {after}, {the fact}. See under {Accessary}. {Matter of fact}, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as a matter-of-fact narration. Syn: Act deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fact n 1: a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case" 2: a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts" 3: an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell" 4: a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts" From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: FACT {Fully Automated Compiling Technique} From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: factintelligence, programming> The kind of {clause} used in {logic programming} which has no {subgoals} and so is always true (always succeeds). E.g. wet(water). male(denis). This is in contrast to a {rule} which only succeeds if all its subgoals do Rules usually contain {logic variables}, facts rarely do except for oddities like "equal(X,X).". (1996-10-20)
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