Definizione monolingua

conjecture

conjecture (third-person singular simple present conjectures, present participle conjecturing, simple past and past participle conjectured)

1. (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

   I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.

conjecture (countable and uncountable; plural conjectures)

1. (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

   I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.

2. (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.

   The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.

3. (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
4. (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.

Definizione dizionario conjecture

	congettura
	unproven statement; guess

congetturare

ipotesi

ipotizzare

supposizione

Altri significati:

surmise (about somebody’s feelings)

to guess

A tentative solution or generalisation inferred from collected data.

(obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.

(mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.

(formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.

supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis

(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven

(formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.