Definition of obverse Obverse

/ʌbvɚˈs/ - [ubvers] - ob•verse

We found 12 definitions of obverse from 5 different sources.

What does obverse mean?

Noun Plural: obverses
obverse - the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design
		verso, reverse left-hand page
		side an extended outer surface of an object; "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house"
		coin a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
obverse - the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides; "the obverse of this issue"

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obverse (Noun)
The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
obverse (Noun)
The double negative of a statement e. g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal.
obverse (Adjective)
Turned or facing toward the observer.
obverse (Adjective)
Corresponding; complementary.
obverse (Adjective)
Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.

obverse (a.)
Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
obverse (a.)
The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
obverse (a.)
Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

obverse
ob-vėrs′, adj. turned towards one: bearing the head, as one face of a coin—opp. to Reverse: a second or complemental aspect of the same fact, a correlative proposition identically, implying another: (bot.) having the base narrower than the top.—n. Ob′verse, the side of a coin containing the head, or principal symbol.—adv. Obverse′ly.—n. Obver′sion, the act of turning toward the front of anything: in logic, a species of immediate inference—viz. the predicating of the original subject, the contradictory of the original predicate, and changing the quality of the proposition—e.g. to infer from all A is B that no A is not B—also called Permutation and Equipollence.—v.t. Obvert′, to turn towards the front. [L. obversus—ob, towards, vertĕre, to turn.]