opposition
Opposition (from late Latin oppositio "the opposite") stands for:
- Opposition (politics) , party or group that shows resistance and rejection of the ruling politics
- Opposition (anatomy) , the opposition of the thumb to the other fingers or the first toe to the other toes
- Opposition (astronomy) , constellation in which two celestial bodies are in the sky at an angular distance of 180 degrees
- Opposition (linguistics) , the contrast between linguistic units used in the same way
- Opposition (chess) , a position in which both kings face each other at a certain distance
- Opposition (album) of the South Tyrolean German rock band Frei.Wild (2015)
See also:
- Opposition effect (optical appearance)
- Opposition word (ancient philological language research)
- Popular opposition (disambiguation)
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains Opposition
- Oppositio (rhetorical figure)
Wiktionary: Opposition - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
