inferring (noun)

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• inference — noun Date: 1594 1. the act or process of inferring: as a. the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former b. the act of passing from… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• control experiment — noun an experiment designed to control for variables affecting the results of another experiment • Hypernyms: ↑experiment, ↑experimentation * * * noun : an experiment for checking the results of other experiments by maintaining the same… …   Useful english dictionary

• horoscope — noun Etymology: Middle English horoscopum, from Latin horoscopus, from Greek hōroskopos, from hōra + skopos watcher; akin to Greek skopein to look at more at spy Date: 14th century 1. a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• illation — noun Etymology: Late Latin illation , illatio, from Latin, action of bringing in, from inferre (past participle illatus) to bring in, from in + ferre to carry more at tolerate, bear Date: 1533 1. the action of inferring ; inference 2. a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• stereology — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1963 a branch of science concerned with inferring the three dimensional properties of objects or matter ordinarily observed two dimensionally • stereological adjective • stereologically… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• illation — noun /ɪˈleɪʃən/ a) the act of inferring or concluding , 1974: Adriaan moved to Pierce’s American illation whereby an if begets a therefore, event by event, the javelin’s flight issuing from the web of contingencies in which we may locate the… …   Wiktionary

• noegenesis — noun The acquisition of new knowledge from observation and experience, and from inferring relationships between known things …   Wiktionary

• inference — noun a) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. b) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction …   Wiktionary

• inferencing — noun The process of making inferences; inferring …   Wiktionary

• inference — noun 1 (C) something that you think is true, based on information that you already know: draw inferences: What inferences have you drawn from this evidence? 2 (U) the act of inferring something: by inference: measures directed against the enemies …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• graphologist — noun a specialist in inferring character from handwriting • Syn: ↑handwriting expert • Derivationally related forms: ↑graphology • Hypernyms: ↑specialist, ↑specializer, ↑specialiser …   Useful english dictionary