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ne·gate

 (nĭ-gāt′)
tr.v. ne·gat·ed, ne·gat·ing, ne·gates
1. To make ineffective or invalid; nullify: a wage increase that was negated by inflation; a goal that was negated by an official's ruling.
2. To make negative: In German, sentences can be negated by using the word "nicht."
3. Computers To perform the machine logic operation NOT gate.

[Latin negāre, negāt-, to deny; see ne in Indo-European roots.]

ne·ga′tor, ne·gat′er n.
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negator

(nɪˈɡeɪtə)
n
(Electronics) electronics another name for NOT circuit
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verbal negators), Croft (1991) nastoji rekonstruirati dijakronijske procese kojima su oni nastali te iznosi postavku da su nepravilni nijecni oblici egzistencijalnih predikata povijesno izvor glagolskih negatora.
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we NEG human-PL be-FREQ-1PST-1PL slave- PL 'We were not human beings, but slaves!' (Klyuchagin 1997: 109) The negators a and avol are in variation in nominal and adjectival predicate constructions, with the adjectival predicate mazij conjugated in the first person singular of the present tense in the way illustrated in table 12.