conjecture
conjetura
definition
verb
he conjectured the existence of an otherwise unknown feature
form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information.
noun
conjectures about the newcomer were many and varied
an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
translation of 'conjecture'
verb
conjeturar,
presumir,
supor
noun
hipótese,
conjetura,
suposição
example
He is aware of the present trend away from textual 'conjecture' .
I can only 'conjecture' the reasons that the organisers had for arranging this visit.
I treated that information as plausible 'conjecture' and afforded it credibility as such.
Because of its posture, if it had been a human being, one might 'conjecture' it was melancholy with a slight reluctance as to what it was doing, akin to a child in pursuit of a lost toy.
Of course, if that had been the case I would 'conjecture' the set would grow from two discs to about 48.
Everyone knows it holds true for every number you can think of but provide rigorous mathematical proof and you win yourself a million bucks - courtesy of the book's publisher, and in the process turn a 'conjecture' into a theorem.
So I guess the 'conjecture' can continue through the foreseeable future.
a matter for 'conjecture'
You must not be influenced by sentiment, 'conjecture' , sympathy, passion, prejudice, public opinion, or public feeling.
Until then, the issues that John claimed to be ‘pointing out’ are just opinion and 'conjecture' .
Based on experimental evidence he was able to 'conjecture' certain laws which were not verified until many years later.
From this, we 'conjecture' global stability in certain cases.
He was as sparing with critical opinions as he was with textual 'conjecture' - only about ten percent of his notes might be called judicial.
Given this procedural assumption, that integration often creates a need for further integration, it is possible to 'conjecture' the future development.
the purpose of the opening in the wall is open to 'conjecture'
I am only making a 'conjecture' based on website flight information.
Maybe there just is no mathematical proof whatsoever which decides the 'conjecture' .
The 'conjecture' is that speculators are acting on insider information.
The generalised Poincaré conjecture has since been shown for all dimensions greater than 4, but the original 'conjecture' has so far remained unproven.
As an adhesive, we 'conjecture' that energy in the fibrils is lost upon decohesion and unloading.
the Goldbach 'conjecture'
In places where those records are incomplete or lost, we are left to 'conjecture' when people from past centuries were born.
Our 'conjecture' is that, in general, contextual information requires more attentional resources and intentional processing to encode and to retrieve than does item information.
And has the 'conjecture' been supported by rigorous mathematics or a mere dismissal?
What leads a mathematician to make a 'conjecture' ?
This 'conjecture' was worked on by many famous mathematicians.
Indeed, this is far from a theoretical 'conjecture' .
There are several cases, however, where I have had to 'conjecture' a reading of the text in order to make sense of it.
His exact reasons for calling it quits remained a matter for heated public 'conjecture' .
It was as though I had opened a faucet that everyone was just waiting to see opened, so they could start throwing the 'conjecture' around.
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