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Definition: HYPOTHESES

Part of Speech Definition
Noun Plural 1. Plural inflection of the noun hypothesis.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Noun Base
(hypothesis)		 1. A proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations.[Wordnet].
2. A tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory".[Wordnet].
3. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.[Wordnet].
4. A tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices".[Wordnet].
5. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer.[Websters].
6. A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis.[Websters].

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Date "Hypotheses" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1520. (references)

Specialty Definition: HYPOTHESES

Domain Definition
Aerospace Tentative assumptions made in order to draw out and test logical or empirical consequences. (references)

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Common Expressions: HYPOTHESES

Expressions Definition
Hypotheses Non Fingo Hypotheses non fingo is a Latin phrase attributed to Isaac Newton often translated as, 'I make no hypotheses'. The context is that he is refusing to speculate as the the whys of the laws of nature, confining himself entirely to their phenomenal description. (references)
Location hypotheses of Atlantis Atlantis was a legendary ancient island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said that it was destroyed by possibly an earthquake or a tsunami about 9,000 years before his own time. Plato claimed it was somewhere outside the Pillars of Hercules (also known as the Strait of Gibraltar). (references)
Testing hypotheses suggested by the data In statistics, hypotheses suggested by the data must be tested differently from hypotheses formed independently of the data. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: HYPOTHESES

Expressions Domain Definition
Nested hypotheses Statistics A sequence of hypotheses in which the hypothesis at any stage is contained in all hypotheses later in the sequence. Source: European Union. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: HYPOTHESES

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Location hypotheses of Atlantis 75     Analysis of Competing Hypotheses 28
Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses 33     Death and Adjustment Hypotheses 16
Analysis of Competing Hypotheses 28     Hypotheses non fingo 4
Hypotheses of consciousness and spacetime 23     Hypotheses of consciousness and spacetime 23
Paranormal and occult hypotheses about UFOs 18     Location hypotheses of Atlantis 75
Death and Adjustment Hypotheses 16     Medical Hypotheses 3
World Hypotheses 7     Paranormal and occult hypotheses about UFOs 18
Testing hypotheses suggested by the data 6     Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses 33
Hypotheses non fingo 4     Testing hypotheses suggested by the data 6
Medical Hypotheses 3     World Hypotheses 7

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: hypotheses
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 hypothesis, supposition, concept, conception, conclusion, conjecture, deduction, foundation, guesswork, impression, inference.
Consider also: figure, idea, judge, reason, theory, ween, assumption, closure, belief, corollary, end, feeling, imprint, notion, premise, presumption, result, completion, depression, image.

Verb

 hypothesize, cogitate, conceive, conclude, consider, construe, contemplate, deduce, develop, expect, formulate, gather, hypothecate, hypothesise, imagine, infer, meditate.
Consider also: allow, believe, calculate, deem, reckon, regard, speculate, suppose, take, think, convene, accumulate, amass, anticipate, assemble, assume, guess.

Other

 hypothesises, hypothesised, hypothesising, fancy, guessing, job, muse.

Expression

 blue sky hypothesis, dead reckoning, mull over.
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Computed Synonyms: hypotheses

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   4.1898   hypotheses     hypothesis     supposition, assumption, presumption, theory, conjecture   
 2   2.0090   hypotheses     supposition     assumption, presumption, conjecture, hypothesis, guess   
 3   2.0089   hypotheses     conjecture     guess, surmise, suppose, supposition, presume   
 4   1.6095   hypotheses     theses     thesis, treatises, treatise, themes, topics   
 5   1.3092   hypotheses     guesses     believes, fancies, conceives, calculates, expects   
 6   1.3092   hypotheses     clauses     stipulations, provisions, provisos, conditions, reservations   
 7   1.2092   hypotheses     sentences     judgements, verdicts, dooms, phrases, adjudications   
 8   1.2092   hypotheses     rates     ratings, grades, ranks, classes, degrees   
 9   1.1091   hypotheses     sets     fixes, puts, lays, settings, places   
 10   1.1091   hypotheses     records     record, accounts, marks, indexes, scores   
 11   1.1091   hypotheses     leaps     vaults, skippings, shoots, dances, pops   
 12   1.1091   hypotheses     kits     packs, bags, harnesses, cases, machineries   
 13   1.1091   hypotheses     dregs     sediment, lees, sludge, deposit, dreg   
 14   1.1089   hypotheses     assumptions     surmises, presuppositions, opinions, speculations, prides   
 15   1.1088   hypotheses     presumptions     surmises, suspicions, presuppositions, hunches, inklings   
--------------------     7 synonyms ranked from 16 to 22 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: HYPOTHESES

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Bohemian hypotézy (hypotheses, hypothesis), hipoteze (hypotheses). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina hypotézy (hypotheses, hypothesis), hipoteze (hypotheses). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 臆测 (assumption, guess, hypotheses), 假定 (to assume, to suppose, assumption, presume, assume), 假說 (hypotheses), 假设 (hypothesis, conjecture, hypothesize, suppose, presume), 网络抽样 (nested hypotheses). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 假定 (assume, postulate, to assume, to suppose, presume), 臆測 (assumption, guess, hypotheses, surmise). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech hypotézy (hypotheses, hypothesis), hipoteze (hypotheses). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Hypothesen (hypotheses, hypothesis, hypothesises), Thesen (theses, hypotheses, statements), Sätze (sentences, records, sets, dregs, hypotheses). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch veonderstelling (hypotheses, hypothesis), hypothese (hypothesis, supposition, assumption, hypotheses, postulate), theses (hypotheses), stellingen (hypotheses). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Eesti hypothesis (hypotheses). Additional references: Eesti, Estonia, Finland, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Estonian hypothesis (hypotheses). Additional references: Estonian, Estonia, Finland, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Français hypothèses (hypotheses), suppositions (assumptions, guesses, hypotheses, presumptions). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
French hypothèses (hypotheses), suppositions (assumptions, guesses, hypotheses, presumptions). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
German Hypothesen (hypotheses, hypothesis, hypothesises), Thesen (theses, hypotheses, statements), Sätze (sentences, records, sets, dregs, hypotheses). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Hypothesen (hypotheses, hypothesis, hypothesises), Thesen (theses, hypotheses, statements), Sätze (sentences, records, sets, dregs, hypotheses). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Hypothesen (hypotheses, hypothesis, hypothesises), Thesen (theses, hypotheses, statements), Sätze (sentences, records, sets, dregs, hypotheses). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 仮説 (hypothesis, supposition, fictional, provisional, temporary). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Norwegian Hypoteser (hypotheses). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Polish hipotezy (hypotheses). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Polnisch hipotezy (hypotheses). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Polski hipotezy (hypotheses). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi hypoteser (hypotheses). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian гипотеза (hypothesis, hypotheses). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) gipoteza (hypothesis, hypotheses). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki гипотеза (hypothesis, hypotheses). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) gipoteza (hypothesis, hypotheses). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish hipótesis (hypothesis, supposition, assumption, hypotheses, if). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska hypoteser (hypotheses). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish hypoteser (hypotheses). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish iç-içe hipotezler (nested hypotheses). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, hypotheses. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: HYPOTHESES

Language Translations for “hypotheses” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin ypotheseshay (hypotheses). Additional references: Pig Latin, hypotheses. (volunteer)
Terran B hyeothese (hypotheses). Additional references: Terran B, hypotheses. (volunteer)
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