Meaning of "conjecture" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONJECTURE

From Latin conjectūra an assembling of facts, from conjicere to throw together, from jacere to throw.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CONJECTURE

conjecture  [kənˈdʒɛktʃə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONJECTURE

Conjecture is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb conjecture in English.

WHAT DOES CONJECTURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Conjecture

A conjecture is a proposition that is unproven. Karl Popper pioneered the use of the term "conjecture" in scientific philosophy. Conjecture is contrasted by hypothesis, which is a testable statement based on accepted grounds. In mathematics, a conjecture is an unproven proposition that appears correct.

Definition of conjecture in the English dictionary

The first definition of conjecture in the dictionary is the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence; guess. Other definition of conjecture is the inference or conclusion so formed. Conjecture is also interpretation of occult signs.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CONJECTURE

PRESENT

Present

I conjecture

you conjecture

he/she/it conjectures

we conjecture

you conjecture

they conjecture

Present continuous

I am conjecturing

you are conjecturing

he/she/it is conjecturing

we are conjecturing

you are conjecturing

they are conjecturing

Present perfect

I have conjectured

you have conjectured

he/she/it has conjectured

we have conjectured

you have conjectured

they have conjectured

Present perfect continuous

I have been conjecturing

you have been conjecturing

he/she/it has been conjecturing

we have been conjecturing

you have been conjecturing

they have been conjecturing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I conjectured

you conjectured

he/she/it conjectured

we conjectured

you conjectured

they conjectured

Past continuous

I was conjecturing

you were conjecturing

he/she/it was conjecturing

we were conjecturing

you were conjecturing

they were conjecturing

Past perfect

I had conjectured

you had conjectured

he/she/it had conjectured

we had conjectured

you had conjectured

they had conjectured

Past perfect continuous

I had been conjecturing

you had been conjecturing

he/she/it had been conjecturing

we had been conjecturing

you had been conjecturing

they had been conjecturing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will conjecture

you will conjecture

he/she/it will conjecture

we will conjecture

you will conjecture

they will conjecture

Future continuous

I will be conjecturing

you will be conjecturing

he/she/it will be conjecturing

we will be conjecturing

you will be conjecturing

they will be conjecturing

Future perfect

I will have conjectured

you will have conjectured

he/she/it will have conjectured

we will have conjectured

you will have conjectured

they will have conjectured

Future perfect continuous

I will have been conjecturing

you will have been conjecturing

he/she/it will have been conjecturing

we will have been conjecturing

you will have been conjecturing

they will have been conjecturing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would conjecture

you would conjecture

he/she/it would conjecture

we would conjecture

you would conjecture

they would conjecture

Conditional continuous

I would be conjecturing

you would be conjecturing

he/she/it would be conjecturing

we would be conjecturing

you would be conjecturing

they would be conjecturing

Conditional perfect

I would have conjecture

you would have conjecture

he/she/it would have conjecture

we would have conjecture

you would have conjecture

they would have conjecture

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been conjecturing

you would have been conjecturing

he/she/it would have been conjecturing

we would have been conjecturing

you would have been conjecturing

they would have been conjecturing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you conjecture
we let´s conjecture
you conjecture

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to conjecture

Past participle

conjectured

Present Participle

conjecturing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «CONJECTURE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «conjecture» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of conjecture

assume · assumption · fancy · guess · guesstimate · guesswork · hypothesis · hypothesize · imagine · infer · inference · notion · presumption · shot in the dark · speculate · speculation · suppose · supposition · surmise · suspect · theorize · theory

TRANSLATION OF CONJECTURE

Find out the translation of conjecture to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of conjecture from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «conjecture» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 推测
• Translator English - Spanish: conjetura
• English: conjecture
• Translator English - Hindi: अनुमान
• Translator English - Arabic: التخمين
• Translator English - Russian: гипотеза
• Translator English - Portuguese: conjectura
• Translator English - Bengali: অনুমান
• Translator English - French: conjecture
• Translator English - Malay: Tekaan
• Translator English - German: Vermutung
• Translator English - Japanese: 推測
• Translator English - Korean: 억측
• Translator English - Javanese: Konjektur
• Translator English - Vietnamese: ước lượng
• Translator English - Tamil: அனுமானம்
• Translator English - Marathi: अनुमान
• Translator English - Turkish: varsayım
• Translator English - Italian: congettura
• Translator English - Polish: przypuszczenie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: гіпотеза
• Translator English - Romanian: presupunere
• Translator English - Greek: εικασία
• Translator English - Afrikaans: veronderstelling
• Translator English - Swedish: gissningar
• Translator English - Norwegian: formodning

10 QUOTES WITH «CONJECTURE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word conjecture.

1

Hannes Alfven

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

2

Will Arnett

And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.

3

Alexander Dubcek

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

4

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

5

Alan Huffman

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

6

Arthur Machen

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

7

Walter Pater

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

8

John Wesley Powell

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

9

Jonathan Raymond

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

10

Tom Wopat

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONJECTURE»

Discover the use of conjecture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to conjecture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Conjecture and Proof

How to prove interesting and deep mathematical results from first principles, with exercises.

Miklós Laczkovich, 2001

The Goldbach Conjecture

"This book provides a detailed description of a most important unsolved mathematical problem - the Goldbach conjecture.

‎2002

The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before ...

"A magisterial acount of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist historiography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public ...

James Franklin, 2002

The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe

In telling the vibrant story of The Poincaré Conjecture, Donal O'Shea makes accessible to general readers for the first time the meaning of the conjecture, and brings alive the field of mathematics and the achievements of generations of ...

Donal O’Shea, 2009

Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of ...

This truly pathbreaking work at long last makes the powerful conceptual tools of Darwin available to the social sciences and will be welcomed by scholars and students from a range of disciplines.

Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Thorbjørn Knudsen, 2010

Catalan's Conjecture

Beautifully clear and concise, this book will appeal not only to specialists in number theory but to anyone interested in seeing the application of the ideas of algebraic number theory to a famous mathematical problem.

René Schoof, 2010

The Smith conjecture

The Smith conjecture

John W. Morgan, Morgan, Chris, Hyman Bass, 1984

The Novikov Conjecture: Geometry and Algebra

If n N is S ,the n-dimensional sphere, and M is an arbitrary closed manifold, then n it is easy to decide whether M is homotopy equivalent to S . Thisisthecaseif and only if M is simply connected (assumingn> 1, the case n = 1 is trivial ...

Matthias Kreck, 2005

Graph Edge Coloring: Vizing's Theorem and Goldberg's Conjecture

Subsequent chapters explore important topics such as: Use of Tashkinov trees to obtain an asymptotic positive solution to Goldberg's conjecture Application of Vizing fans to obtain both known and new results Kierstead paths as an ...

Michael Stiebitz, Diego Scheide, Bjarne Toft, 2012

How to Prove the Collatz Conjecture

The first proof of the CollatzConjecture.

Danny Fleming, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONJECTURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term conjecture is used in the context of the following news items.

Who is the greatest Ashes star of the last three decades?

But for pure theatre, his four off the last ball of the day at the SCG in 2003 to score his record-equalling 29th Test century amid conjecture about ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»

Medals wrongly issued after Afghan vet's suicide, Lawson tells parents

“I'm really disappointed with the characterization in there and the conjecture that we would be taking these medals back,” he said late Tuesday. «Ottawa Citizen, Jul 15»

Pier slaying suspect's twisted road to S.F.

As for why the bureau didn't do that this time, Kice said that “would be pure conjecture on our part.” But she noted, “One of the significant ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 15»

How a Chinese puzzle could enable the Greeks to have the last laugh

I know this is mere conjecture at this stage. But if you push a country into a corner, it will do what it has to do to survive. Economics is the art of ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

Wimbledon: Serena Williams fights back for semi-final place

Light-heartedly reiterating the off-limits nature of the grand slam conjecture, Serena laughed: “No I told you guys don't mention it, no slam!”. «Irish Times, Jul 15»

What Should the Rangers Pay Derek Stepan?

It is fair to say that there has been a sizable amount of conjecture, inaccurate information and lack of respect for Stepan and what he has done ... «Today's Slapshot, Jul 15»

Spider-Man in 'Ant-Man'? 5 ways Marvel's 'Ant-Man' could connect to …

Some are rumor, others complete conjecture. One caveat: I try to avoid as many spoilers as possible, so there are likely some juicy ones out ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»

Suspended Stocks and Go-Karting Lawyers

I don't know, but here's a wild conjecture. First, the big banks will hold relatively more of their mortgages on balance sheet as banking assets, ... «Bloomberg View, Jul 15»

Bygones: I grabbed Duncan Edwards' photo as he sat on a train

Over the years, there has been much conjecture about just how good the "boy wonder" could have been. Some have suggested that he would ... «Derby Telegraph, Jul 15»

Object of Intrigue: The Devil's Bible

This satanic association has ushered in lots of conspiracy-enhanced conjecture regarding the manuscript's origins and purpose. But such talk ... «Atlas Obscura, Jul 15»