argument

/ˈär-gyə-mənt/

Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin argūmentum, from arguere "to show, demonstrate" + -mentum -ment

noun

  1. the act or process of arguing, reasoning, or discussing : argumentation

  2. a coherent series of reasons, statements, or facts intended to support or establish a point of view

  3. an angry quarrel or disagreement

a defense attorney's closing argument

noun

  1. the extent or range of a quality, property, process, or phenomenon: such as

  2. the extent of a vibratory movement (as of a pendulum) measured from the mean position to an extreme

  3. the maximum departure of the value of an alternating current or wave from the average value

noun

  1. an argument for the existence of God based upon the meaning of the term God