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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\ (; 135?), n. [L. conjectura, fr conjicere conjectum to throw together, infer, conjecture; con- + jacere to throw: cf F. conjecturer. See {Jet} a shooting forth.] An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. --Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjectured}; p. pr & vb n. {Conjecturing}.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf {Conject}.] To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form at random, opinions concerning. Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be --South. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. i. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: conjecture n 1: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture" [syn: {speculation}] 2: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: {guess}, {supposition}, {surmise}, {speculation}, {hypothesis}] 3: reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence v : to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds: "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps." [syn: {speculate}, {theorize}, {theorise}, {hypothesize}, {hypothecate}, {suppose}]
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