verb To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
verb To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
to assert one's authority
verb To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
to assert our rights and liberties
verb 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. See assert oneself.
Since going to therapy, I've found it much easier to assert myself.
verb To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
verb To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.