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converse

In mathematics, the reversed order of a conditional statement; the converse of the statement ‘if a, then b’ is ‘if b, then a’. The converse does not always hold true; for example, the converse of ‘if x = 3, then x2 = 9’ is ‘if x2 = 9, then x = 3’, which is not true, as x could also be −3.

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City in Bexar County, south-central Texas, USA, 23 km/14 mi northeast of San Antonio; population (1990) 8,900. Converse is a growing suburb just southwest of Randolph Air Force Base.
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I suggested telepathy, but he said no, that it was not telepathy since they could only communicate when in each others' presence, nor could they talk with the Sagoths or the other inhabitants of Pellucidar by the same method they used to converse with one another.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
One Evening in December as my Father, my Mother and myself, were arranged in social converse round our Fireside, we were on a sudden greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward door of our rustic Cot.
Love and Friendship by Austen, Jane View in context
They are happy men, whose natures sort with their vocations; otherwise they may say, multum incola fuit anima mea; when they converse in those things, they do not affect.
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