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conjecture

noun
/kənˈd͡ʒɛk.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/UK/kənˈd͡ʒɛk.t͡ʃɚ/CA/kənˈd͡ʒek.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin 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. Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)).

  1. derived from coniectūra — “a guess”

Definitions

  1. A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true

    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. A supposition based upon incomplete evidence

    A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.

    • The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.

  3. A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been…

    A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Interpretation of signs and omens.

    2. To guess

      To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

      • I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
      • What could have been done by such a machine downhill can only be conjectured, for the maximum speed was restricted rigidly to 80 m.p.h.

    3. To infer on slight evidence

      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)
      • "Most likely he who is the shorter of the two;—no! he goes in the first, and is, of course, the eldest; but we have no time for conjecturing now." Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.

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Derived

abc conjecture, Beal conjecture, Beal's conjecture, Brocard's conjecture, Collatz conjecture, conjecturingly, Cramér's conjecture, Dickson's conjecture, Dixmier conjecture, double bubble conjecture, Elliott-Halberstam conjecture, Fuglede's conjecture, Gilbreath's conjecture, Goldbach's conjecture, Heawood conjecture, Hedetniemi's conjecture, honeycomb conjecture, Ilieff's conjecture, Jacobian conjecture, Keller's conjecture, Langlands conjecture, Legendre's conjecture, Leopoldt's conjecture, Mach's conjecture, metaconjecture, Meyniel's conjecture, Oesterlé-Masser conjecture, Pacman conjecture, Poincaré conjecture, Polignac's conjecture, Pólya's conjecture, Ramanujan conjecture, Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture, Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture, Sendov's conjecture, Singmaster's conjecture, SYZ conjecture, Szpiro's conjecture, Thurston's geometrization conjecture, twin prime conjecture · +5 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at conjecture. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at conjecture. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at conjecture

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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