conjecture

Etymology
From, from , from , perfect passive participle of , from + ; see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
 * The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
 * 1)  A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally.
 * 2)  Interpretation of signs and omens.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:supposition

Translations

 * Arabic:, اِفْتِرَاض
 * Azerbaijani: fərziyyə,, , ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: dohad, konjektura
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: conxetura
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Irish: buille faoi thuairim
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: coniectūra
 * Maori: pūmāramarama, tāiringa kōrero
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål: gjetning, gjetting, gjettverk, antakelse, formodning
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: gjetting, gissing
 * Ottoman Turkish: تقدیر
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tuairmse, barail, tomhas
 * Serbo-Croatian:, nagađanje
 * Slovak: konjektúra
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


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 * Ottoman Turkish: تقدیر
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 * Maori: pūmāramarama
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål: konjektur
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: konjektur
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: tuairmse, barail
 * Serbo-Croatian:
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Verb

 * 1)  To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
 * I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
 * 1)  To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.
 * 2) * February 22, 1685,, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: konjekti
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ὑπονοέω
 * Hungarian:, , feltételezésekbe bocsátkozik
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: opīnor, * Latin: coniectō
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: hamurpay
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) conjecture

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with.