To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive.
To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true.
To claim a right to something.
To require of someone.
To ask forcefully for information.
To request forcefully.
To issue a summons to court.
An urgent request.
The desire to purchase goods and services.
An order.
The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
A forceful claim for something.
A requirement.
More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.