meaning of fact

1. A doing, making, or preparing.
2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
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.
5. FACT Fully Automated Compiling Technique fact intelligence, programming> The kind of clause used in logic programming which has no subgoals and so is always true always succeeds. E. g. wetwater. maledenis. 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 "equalX,X. ".
6. a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the ">case"

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