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Meaning of "tautological" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAUTOLOGICAL

tautological  [ˌtɔːtəˈlɒdʒɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAUTOLOGICAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tautological is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TAUTOLOGICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tautological

In mathematics, tautological may refer to: Logic: ▪ Tautological consequence Geometry, where it is used as an alternative to canonical: ▪ Tautological bundle ▪ Tautological line bundle ▪ Tautological one-form...

Definition of tautological in the English dictionary

The definition of tautological in the dictionary is using words that merely repeat elements of the meaning already conveyed. Other definition of tautological is of or relating to a statement that is always true, esp a truth-functional expression that takes the value true for all combinations of values of its components, as in either the sun is out or the sun is not out.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAUTOLOGICAL


archaeological
ˌɑːkɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
biological
ˌbaɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
chronological
ˌkrɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
ecological
ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
genealogical
ˌdʒiːnɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
geological
ˌdʒiːəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
histological
ˌhɪstəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
hydrological
ˌhaɪdrəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
ideological
ˌaɪdɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
logical
ˈlɒdʒɪkəl
meteorological
ˌmiːtɪərəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
methodological
ˌmeθədəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
morphological
ˌmɔːfəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
neurological
ˌnjʊərəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
pathological
ˌpæθəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
pharmacological
ˌfɑːməkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
physiological
ˌfɪzɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
psychological
ˌsaɪkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
technological
ˌtɛknəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
theological
ˌθɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAUTOLOGICAL

tautochrone
tautochronism
tautochronous
tautog
tautologic
tautologically
tautologies
tautologise
tautologism
tautologist
tautologize
tautologous
tautologously
tautology
tautomer
tautomeric
tautomerism
tautometric
tautometrical
tautonym

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAUTOLOGICAL

anthropological
archeological
astrological
chemical
epidemiological
histopathological
illogical
immunological
liturgical
magical
metallurgical
microbiological
mineralogical
mythological
pedagogical
phraseological
radiological
surgical
topological
toxicological
zoological

Synonyms and antonyms of tautological in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TAUTOLOGICAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tautological» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tautological

Translation of «tautological» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAUTOLOGICAL

Find out the translation of tautological to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tautological from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tautological» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

同义反复
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tautológica
570 millions of speakers

English

tautological
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनुलापिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حشو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тавтологией
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tautológico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দ্বিরূক্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tautologique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tautologi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tautologisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トートロジー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동어 반복적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tautologis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tautological
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tautological
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कथानक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gereksiz tekrar yapan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tautologico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tautologią
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тавтологією
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tautologic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταυτολογική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toutologies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tautological
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tautological
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tautological

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTOLOGICAL»

The term «tautological» is regularly used and occupies the 81.860 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTOLOGICAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tautological» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tautological» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tautological

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAUTOLOGICAL»

Discover the use of tautological in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tautological and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Perfect Pairings in the Tautological Rings of the Moduli ...
The focus of this work is to use explicit calculation of the intersection pairing to give supporting evidence for the conjectured structure of the tautological rings.
Jameel Al-Aidroos, 2008
2
Tautological Oxymorons: Deconstructing Scientific ...
space'...and thereby birthing a meaningless tautology?5 Wittgenstein showed ( what should be patently obvious) that all mathematical propositions are tautological—for the predicate is always contained in the subject. The subject: 1+ 1, ...
John Brey, 2002
3
Extension Groups of Tautological Sheaves on Hilbert Schemes ...
In chapter 4 we compute extension groups between tautological bundles and more generally twisted tautological objects, i.e. tautological objects tensorised with determinant line bundles. Our main theorem is the existence of natural ...
Andreas Krug, 2012
4
Logic, Thought and Action
Daniel Vanderveken. |= Tautological [t = t]; |= ∧t1 = ∧t2 ⇒ Tautological[t1 = t2] and |=Tautological □(Ap ∨ ¬Ap) 5.3 Laws for tautological implication Tautological implication is much finer than strict implication. |= Tautological (Ap ⇒ Bp) ⇒ (Ap ...
Daniel Vanderveken, 2006
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The Argument of the Tractatus: Its Relevance to Contemporary ...
His view is that there simply are no logical propositional symbols, that there is no tautological symbol. Those portions of the text which suggest the contrary are from the perspective prior to having "thrown away the ladder." That is, they involve ...
Richard McDonough, 1986
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A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern ...
1. THE. CASE. OF. THE. TAUTOLOGICAL. INFINITIVE. Often when contemporary literary critics talk about other languages, Yiddish included, the more complicated or opaque grammatical structures get far shorter shrift than the sexy bits: the ...
Jordan D. Finkin, 2010
7
The Logic of Knowledge Bases
A description of tautological entailment can be found in [2], and its four-valued semantics is due to Dunn [27]. In [33], an alternative account of the four-valued semantics using classical world states and a non-standard interpretation of negation ...
Hector J. Levesque
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Kurt Gödel: Unpublished Philosophical Essays
to mean that mathematics must either be rejected [or?] considered to be tautological. But to this objection two things are to be replied. 1. For those parts of mathematics which need abstracts concepts for their consistency proof (see footnote [?] ...
Francisco A. Rodriguez-Consuegra, 1995
9
Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy
Perhaps a meadow is not a battlefield, but a meadow. A meadow is a meadow. That is a tautological sentence, one that says the same from out of the same, in a sense a circular statement. But this tautological sentence avoids the inclination to  ...
Ladelle McWhorter, Gail Stenstad, 2009
10
Cross-cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction
My main claim concerning English nominal tautologies is this: English has not one, but many, productive tautological patterns conforming to the formula (ART) N. be (ART) N.. If we want to state the meaning of these patterns accurately, we ...
Anna Wierzbicka, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAUTOLOGICAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tautological is used in the context of the following news items.
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Video: A supercut of every single tautology in The Wire
It is what it is - three brilliant minutes of tautology from The Wire in a giant supercut ... from calling a spade a spade - especially when in comes to the tautological. «JOE, May 15»
2
Re: Note to Self
It is what it is. When Colson Whitehead wrote in the April 5 issue about the use of tautological phrases like “You do you” and “Haters gonna hate” as evidence of ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
3
How 'You Do You' Perfectly Captures Our Narcissistic Culture
In a world where the selfie has become our dominant art form, tautological phrases like “You do you” and its tribe provide a philosophical scaffolding for our ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
4
Tautological Description-Relativistic Metaphysics IS The Theory Of …
There is nothing more obvious than the tautology of that “I experience, therefore I experience”. Grounded on this tautologically self-evident start, Descartes' “I ... «Science 2.0, Feb 15»
5
Philippe Garrel
Garrel's films examine these decidedly modern relationships in all their shapes and sizes, providing diverse insights into these seemingly tautological forms. «The Hindu, Nov 14»
6
ISIS is Islam!
Listing the number of failed Arab states at this point would be nearly tautological. Islamist ideological exports from Arabia, like the Ebola virus to the south, are ... «American Thinker, Oct 14»
7
We Need to Know More, But the 'Experts' Aren't Helping
The answers they provided to the above questions were ahistorical, tautological or just plain uninformed. To the first they responded -- "they hate us because ... «Huffington Post, Oct 14»
8
A Tale of Two Companies
... Planes Push Yields Lower"--headline, Bloomberg, Aug. 7. News of the Tautological "Faith Despite the Unanswered Questions"--headline, Christian Post, Aug. «Wall Street Journal, Aug 14»
9
A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture
What makes the middlebrows so contemptible? Woolf's tautological response is their very middleness, their inability to be either one thing or another, and their ... «New York Times, Aug 14»
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What Does It Mean For Something To Be Metaphysically Necessary?
Definitions, of course, are tautological, and tautologies are often regarded with little interest in such discussions. But this is a mistake: think about the fact that ... «Science 2.0, Apr 14»

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