tentative hypothesis

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• hypothesis — I noun assertion, assignment of cause, assumption, conclusion drawn from accepted truths, coniectura, conjecture, deduction, guess, inference, postulate, postulation, speculation, suggestion, supposal, supposition, surmise, tentative explanation …   Law dictionary

• hypothesis — hypothesis, theory, law are often interchangeable in general use. In their technical senses they are usually discriminated by the scientists and philosophers who employ them. In general the terms denote an inference from data that is offered as a …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Hypothesis — Hy*poth e*sis, n.; pl. {Hypotheses}. [NL., fr. Gr. ? foundation, supposition, fr. ? to place under, ? under + ? to put. See {Hypo }, {Thesis}.] 1. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• hypothesis — [n] theory antecedent, apriority, assignment, assumption, attribution, axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data, deduction, demonstration, derivation, explanation, foundation, ground, guess, inference, interpretation, layout …   New thesaurus

• tentative explanation — index hypothesis Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• tentative law — index hypothesis Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• hypothesis — noun (plural hypotheses) Etymology: Greek, from hypotithenai to put under, suppose, from hypo + tithenai to put more at do Date: circa 1656 1. a. an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument b. an interpretation of a practical… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• hypothesis — noun /haɪˈpɒθɪ̈sɪs/ a) A tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or …   Wiktionary

• hypothesis — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. condition, supposition, theory, postulate, assumption. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. theory, supposition, surmise, speculation, scheme, system, conjecture, prediction, assumption, presumption, condition,… …   English dictionary for students

• hypothesis — n.; pl. ses [Gr. hypothesis, theory] A tentative proposition explaining the occurrence of a phenomenon either asserted as provisional conjecture to guide an investigation or accepted as highly probable in view of established facts …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• hypothesis — A tentative assumption or educated guess developed to explain a set of observations …   Dictionary of microbiology