English Explanatory Dictionary

conjecture

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
  2. A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
  3. A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
  4. Interpretation of signs and omens.
verb
  1. To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
  2. To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.

Pronunciation

/kənˈd͡ʒɛk.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ /kənˈd͡ʒɛk.t͡ʃɚ/ en-us-conjecture.ogg /kənˈd͡ʒek.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ en-au-conjecture.ogg

Word forms

conjecture conjectures conjecturing conjectured

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)).

Related words

conject conjectural

Derived words

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 Zarankiewicz's crossing number conjecture misconjecture conjecturability conjecturable unconjectured
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