hypothesis
hy·poth·esis (hī pät̸h′ə sis, hi-)
noun pl. -·ses′--sēz′
an unproved theory, proposition, supposition, etc. tentatively accepted to explain certain facts or (working hypothesis) to provide a basis for further investigation, argument, etc.
Etymology: Gr, groundwork, foundation, supposition < hypotithenai, to place under < hypo-, under + tithenai, to place: see hypo- & do
hypothesis
n.
Preposition: of
- crowd-out: All participants complete percent of the hypothesis of crowd-out we would expect.
Converse of object
- formulate: In the worst case scenario, the model maker is forced just to formulate hypotheses about them.
- reject: In this case, the correct decision is to reject the null hypothesis.
- disprove: However it is not the subject matter of this book to attempt to prove or disprove any survival hypothesis.
- refute: Unfortunately there is no data to accept or refute these hypotheses.
- test: A group in Paignton Zoo decided to test the hypothesis.
- explode: In Part Four, Alan Alford uses the exploded planet hypothesis to provide a complete decoding of Plato's Atlantis story.
Adjective modifier
- null: For these experiments, the null hypothesis was rejected.
- testable: However, it would be surprising if a new ontology yielded testable hypotheses.
- chemiosmotic: So he was reluctant to accept the chemiosmotic hypothesis in the first place.
- extraterrestrial: Trying to fit this case into the extraterrestrial hypothesis presents a series of problems.
- plausible: A rational model is suggested, where the most plausible hypothesis is selected first.
- chilling: Be ready to quot chilling quot hypothesis for the robert.
Modifies a noun
- testing: Take, for instance, the basic concept of hypothesis testing.
Noun used with modifier
- priori: The trick of course is to find an alternative a priori hypothesis.
- verb-island: Comparing the verb-island hypothesis account of syntax acquisition with a distributional account.
- prion: In 1986 the prion hypothesis was still regarded as highly controversial.
- quot: Quot hypothesis on study sample is bit yielded a we used nuclear.
- continuum: Nowadays " = c " is called the " continuum hypothesis " and can be taken as an axiom of set theory.
- unproven: Even unproven hypotheses of the existence of things can be useful.
What is the character of a family to an hypothesis? my father would reply.
I cannot give any scientist of anyage better advice than this: the intensityof a conviction that a hypothesisistrue has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
Uberhaupt ist es fu« r den Forscher ein guter Morgensport, t a« glich vor dem Fru« hstu« ck eine Lieblingshypothese einzustampfenödas erh a« lt jung. It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Humanbeings, intheirgenerous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of a lower moral quality than their own.
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates everything to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.
The great tragedy of Scienceöthe slaying of a beautiful hypothesis byan ugly fact.
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