inferences
Meaning of inferences
- a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
researchers are entrusted with drawing inferences from the data
it seemed a fair inference that such books would be grouped together
late 16th century: from medieval Latin inferentia, from inferent- ‘bringing in’, from the verb inferre (see infer).
Information about inferences
- It is a name.
- The singular form of inferences is: inference.
- Languages in which inferences is used:
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Hyphenation of inferences
in-fer-ences
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- inferences is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
inferences synonyms
Meaning the inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle:
Meaning a judgement or decision reached by reasoning:
Meaning the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way:
Meaning an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information:
Meaning the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence:
Meaning a supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it:
Meaning a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved:
Meaning the forming of a theory or theories about something:
Meaning put (something) forward as a hypothesis:
Meaning an attitude adopted in law or as a matter of policy towards an action or proposal in the absence of acceptable reasons to the contrary:
Meaning a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof:
Meaning a belief held without proof or certain knowledge; an assumption or hypothesis:
Meaning the action or process of calculating or estimating something:
Meaning the action of estimating or concluding something by assuming that existing trends will continue or a current method will remain applicable:
Meaning the process or results of guessing:
Meaning estimate or conclude (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct:
Meaning an estimate based on a mixture of guesswork and calculation:
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