subcontrary

英文释义

a. Contrary in an inferior degree.
a. Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a
section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not
parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a
circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have
a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
a. Denoting the relation of opposition between the
particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be
true and only one can be false.
n. A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or
contrary in a lower degree.