conjecture

noun · verbB2

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noun

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conjectures

1.
(countable, formal, uncountable)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.
(countable, formal, uncountable)A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
3.
(countable, uncountable)(mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
4.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Interpretation of signs and omens.

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verb

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conjectures

V_ing/Gerund

conjecturing

V_ed/pp

conjectured

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

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metaconjecturemisconjectureconjecturinglyabc conjectureBeal's conjectureBrocard's conjectureCollatz conjectureDickson's conjectureDixmier conjecturedouble bubble conjectureElliott-Halberstam conjectureGilbreath's conjectureGoldbach's conjectureHedetniemi's conjecturehoneycomb conjectureJacobian conjectureOesterlé-Masser conjecturePoincaré conjecturePolignac's conjectureRyu-Takayanagi conjecture

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ine-pro From fro, from la coniectūra a guess, from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (throw or cast together; guess), from con- (together) + iaciō (throw, hurl); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject.