Conjecture vs Induction - What's the difference?
conjecture | induction |
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a .
(formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
(mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally (l).
(obsolete) of signs and omens.
(formal) To ; to venture an unproven idea.
* South
An act of inducting.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Shakespeare
# A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
An act of inducing.
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# (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
# (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
# (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
# (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
# (biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
(lb) The process of inducing the birth process.
(obsolete) An introduction.
* Massinger
As a verb conjecture
is .As a noun induction is
an act of inducting.conjecture
English
Noun
- I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
- The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
Synonyms
* * See alsoVerb
(conjectur)- I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
- Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
- These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.
- This is but an induction : I will daw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.
