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conjecture
(encz) | conjecture,dohad n: Zdeněk Brož |
conjecture
(encz) | conjecture,dohoda n: Zdeněk Brož |
conjecture
(encz) | conjecture,domněnka n: [mat.] |
conjecture
(encz) | conjecture,konjektura n: [lingv.] pravděpodobná oprava poškozeného
textu Zdeněk Brož |
Conjecture
(gcide) | Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\ (; 135?), n. [L. conjectura, fr.
conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture;
con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See Jet a
shooting forth.]
An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive
evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
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He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first
loose conjecture by a real study of nature. --Whewell.
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Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. --Milton.
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Conjecture
(gcide) | Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conjectured; p.
pr. & vb. n. Conjecturing.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf.
Conject.]
To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to
surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
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Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what
will be. --South.
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Conjecture
(gcide) | Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. i.
To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form
an opinion; to imagine.
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conjecture
(wn) | conjecture
n 1: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or
conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence);
"speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he
dismissed it as mere conjecture" [syn: speculation,
conjecture]
2: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
[syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise,
surmisal, speculation, hypothesis]
3: reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from
incomplete evidence
v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
"Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
[syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture,
hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose] |
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coase conjecture
(encz) | Coase Conjecture,Coaseova domněnka [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
conjecture
(encz) | conjecture,dohad n: Zdeněk Brožconjecture,dohoda n: Zdeněk Brožconjecture,domněnka n: [mat.] conjecture,konjektura n: [lingv.] pravděpodobná oprava poškozeného
textu Zdeněk Brož |
conjectured
(encz) | conjectured,domnělý adj: Zdeněk Brožconjectured,odhadovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
conjectures
(encz) | conjectures,dohady n: pl. Zdeněk Brožconjectures,domněnky n: pl. Zdeněk Brožconjectures,odhady n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Conjectured
(gcide) | Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conjectured; p.
pr. & vb. n. Conjecturing.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf.
Conject.]
To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to
surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
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Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what
will be. --South.
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Conjecturer
(gcide) | Conjecturer \Con*jec"tur*er\, n.
One who conjectures. --Hobbes.
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Misconjecture
(gcide) | Misconjecture \Mis`con*jec"ture\ (?; 135), n.
A wrong conjecture or guess. --Sir T. Browne.
[1913 Webster]Misconjecture \Mis`con*jec"ture\, v. t. & i.
To conjecture wrongly.
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conjecture
(wn) | conjecture
n 1: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or
conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence);
"speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he
dismissed it as mere conjecture" [syn: speculation,
conjecture]
2: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
[syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise,
surmisal, speculation, hypothesis]
3: reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from
incomplete evidence
v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
"Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
[syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture,
hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose] |
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