Negation

noun

1. The act of negating something.
2. A denial or contradiction.
3. A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
4. The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.