fact : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fact	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for fact
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fact n a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case" 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" 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" a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"
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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FACT {Fully Automated Compiling Technique}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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).". (1996-10-20)