Any formal declaration or set of declarations about the subject matter made by management. Scope Notes: Assertions should usually be in writing and commonly contain a list of specific attributes about [..]

early 15c., assercioun, from Middle French assertion (14c.) or directly from Late Latin assertionem (nominative assertio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin asserere "claim rights [..]

a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) affirmation: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something (assert) state categorically (assert) affirm: [..]

(NIST) A logical expression specifying a program state that must exist or a set of conditions that program variables must satisfy at a particular point during program execution.

n. 1. the forceful, sometimes aggressive, statement of beliefs, claims, or rights on another person 2. in sport, the use of force within the parameters of the game to achieve a strategic advantage ove [..]

Explicit or implicit representations by an entity's management that are embodied in financial statement components and for which the AUDITOR obtains and evaluates evidential matter when forming h [..]

(n) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)(n) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

A component of a regular expression that must be true for the pattern to match but does not necessarily match any characters itself. Often used specifically to mean a zero-width assertion.

A component of a regular expression

that matches something of zero width

A statement in a program that a condition is true at this point in the program. Useful for reasoning about how a program is supposed to behave.

is a statement that should hold true as the model executes.

An expression which is supposed to be true at a particular point in a program. Programmers typically put assertions in their code to check for errors; if the assertion fails (i.e., if the expression e [..]

The identity information provided by an Identity Provider to a Service Provider.

See attribute assertion

An assertion is style of property used by a designer or verification engineer to describe design intent. This can describe either legal or illegal behaviour of a circuit and is used as part of an ABV [..]

When the output of an IC is taken to Voh, in a single-ended device, assuming an active high logic circuit [positive logic]. When the +side of a differential circuit is taken to Voh and the -side of th [..]

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. You're a man of strong assertions! Maintenance; vindication [..]