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• conjecture — [kən jek′chər] n. [ME < L conjectura, a putting together, guess, inference < conjectus, pp. of conjicere, to throw together, guess < com , together + jacere, to throw: see JET1] 1. an inferring, theorizing, or predicting from incomplete… …   English World dictionary

• conjecture — I n. (formal) guess 1) to make a conjecture 2) a conjecture that + clause (her conjecture that the election would be a landslide proved to be true) II v. (formal) (L) ( to guess ) the press conjectured that a summit conference would take place *… …   Combinatory dictionary

• conjecture — vb Conjecture, surmise, guess are comparable as verbs, meaning to draw an inference from slight evi dence, and as nouns, denoting an inference based upon such evidence. Conjecture implies formation of an opinion or judgment upon what is… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Conjecture — Con*jec ture, v. i. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• conjecture 1 — n. A conclusion or inference based upon incomplete or uncertain evidence. 2 v. To make a conclusion or inference based upon such evidence. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 …   Law dictionary

• conjecture — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin conjectura, from conjectus, past participle of conicere, literally, to throw together, from com + jacere to throw more at jet Date: 14th century 1. obsolete …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• conjecture — n 1. guess, surmise, speculation, Sl. shot in the dark; assumption, supposition, presupposition, premise, presumption; hypothesis, thesis, theory, postulate, postulation; augury, forecast. 2. suspicion, inkling, feeling; intuition, divination,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Segal conjecture — Segal s Burnside ring conjecture, or, more briefly, the Segal conjecture, is a theorem in homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics. The theorem relates the Burnside ring of a finite group G to the stable cohomotopy of the classifying space BG .… …   Wikipedia

• Hodge conjecture — The Hodge conjecture is a major unsolved problem in algebraic geometry which relates the algebraic topology of a non singular complex algebraic variety and the subvarieties of that variety. More specifically, the conjecture says that certain de… …   Wikipedia

• Chronology protection conjecture — The chronology protection conjecture is a conjecture by the physicist Professor Stephen Hawking that the laws of physics are such as to prevent time travel on all but sub microscopic scales. Mathematically, the permissibility of time travel is… …   Wikipedia

• Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture — Millennium Prize Problems P versus NP problem Hodge conjecture Poincaré conjecture Riemann hypo …   Wikipedia