hypothesis

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  1. noun A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
  2. noun Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption.
  3. noun The antecedent of a conditional statement.

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  • My hypothesis is American soldiers are good, usually. —  Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes
  • He would then test it by experiment, and when it failed would at once recognise that his hypothesis was a priori bound to fail. —  Kepler
  • Horry seemed mightily pleased with the success which his new book has met with; nobody cavils at anything, but here and there an expression; his hypothesis is approved of from the most reasonable conjectures, and the most indisputable authorities. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • But part of my hypothesis is the fact that Microsoft as a developer culture is much less averse to such a move than Microsoft as a business culture. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • But part of my hypothesis is the fact that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) as a developer culture is much less averse to such a move than Microsoft as a business culture. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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  1. Latin, subject for a speech, from Greek hupothesis, proposal, supposition, from hupotithenai, hupothe-, to suppose : hupo-, hypo- + tithenai, to place; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = D. G. Danish hypothese = Swedish hypotes = French hypothèse = Spanish hipótesis = Portuguese hypothese = Italian ipotesi, from Greek ὑπόθεσις, a groundwork, foundation, base, supposition, literally a placing under, that which is placed under, from ὑποτιθέναι, place under, from ὑπό, under, + τιθέναι, place, put, later θέσις, a putting: see thesis. Cf. hypothec.
 

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