n. | 1. | A doing, making, or preparing. | ||||||
2. | An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. | |||||||
3. | Reality; actuality; truth; | |||||||
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;
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Noun | 1. | fact - a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case" |
2. | fact - 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. | fact - 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. | fact - a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts" |
1. | FACT - Fully Automated Compiling Technique | ||
2. | (artificial intelligence, programming) | fact - 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).". |