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Definition of hypothesis in English:

hypothesis

noun

1A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
‘his ‘steady state’ hypothesis of the origin of the universe’
- ‘Even a religion that stresses faith above all else seeks evidence to confirm its hypotheses.’
- ‘Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the number of times segmentation arose.’
- ‘All of those hypotheses were proposed indirectly and may not be mutually exclusive to each other.’
- ‘This variation is poorly understood, and several hypotheses have been proposed.’
- ‘I think it's important to note that what I'm proposing here is a hypothesis rather than a conclusion.’
- ‘All scientists do is try to generalise hypotheses from evidence and then attempt to test them in future.’
- ‘In the seventeenth century, a number of hypotheses had been proposed for the origin of fossils.’
- ‘The hypothesis is that the view from the castle will be so spoiled that it will put off visitors.’
- ‘Several hypotheses can be proposed to explain why variance increases with longer intervals.’
- ‘The scientific method involves proposing a hypothesis then trying to disprove it.’
- ‘The only thing you can do is say the evidence suggests that the hypothesis is true.’
- ‘We use the emergence of these patterns as hypotheses that may be investigated in real fish schools.’
- ‘All you will ever have is circumstantial evidence and an un-falsifiable hypothesis.’
- ‘Well, everyone comes at an investigation with certain hypotheses or certain biases.’
- ‘Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the mechanism of attachment.’
- ‘There are several hypotheses or models proposed to explain how feedback limitation of photosynthesis may be regulated.’
- ‘Three hypotheses may be proposed to account for this unanticipated observation.’
- ‘Embedded within the hypothesis will be concepts that will need to be translated into researchable entities.’
- ‘Almost all were rhetorical or editorial, with some offering explanatory hypotheses or sociological theories.’
- ‘The conceptual peg hypothesis provides a theoretical explanation of the difference.’
theory, theorem, thesis, conjecture, supposition, speculation, postulation, postulate, proposition, premise, surmise, assumption, presumption, presupposition
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1. 1.1Philosophy A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth.
  with clause ‘the hypothesis that every event has a cause’
  ‘Popper consistently has opposed the appeal to inductive arguments to justify hypotheses.’
  ‘The second example of Hobbes's hypotheses about the physical world which I want to consider is his idea about the nature of light.’
  ‘In what way could the hypothesis that McFadden's process is consciousness be falsified?’
  ‘If we act as if these ideas were true of reality, then we are led to formulate true hypotheses.’
  ‘This allows a test of the hypothesis that central tendency determines typicality.’
  reason, reasons, reasoning, thinking, basis, logical basis, logic, grounds, sense
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