Obverse

['ɒbvɜːs] or ['ɑbvɝs]

Definition

(noun.) the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design.

(noun.) the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides; 'the obverse of this issue'.

Typist: Vivienne--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

(a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

(a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

Checker: Marsha

Definition

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.

Checker: Nathan