Definition of Hypotheses

1. Noun. (plural of hypothesis) ¹

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Definition of Hypotheses

1. hypothesis [n] - See also: hypothesis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypotheses

hypothecations
hypothecator
hypothecators
hypothecs
hypothenar
hypothenar eminence
hypothenar prominence
hypothenusal
hypothenuse
hypothenuses
hypothermal
hypothermia
hypothermias
hypothermic
hypothermic anaesthesia
hypotheses (current term)
hypothesis
hypothesise
hypothesised
hypothesises
hypothesising
hypothesize
hypothesized
hypothesizer
hypothesizers
hypothesizes
hypothesizing
hypothetic
hypothetical
hypothetical creature

Literary usage of Hypotheses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science of Logic: An Inquiry Into the Principles of Accurate Thought and by Peter Coffey (1912)
"Our verification of such hypotheses will consist in our pointing to their superior power of explaining facts. It is well to emphasize this point; because, ..."

2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Many hypotheses respecting the cause of the glacial period have been offered, ... Almost all hypotheses appeal to a combination of agencies, ..."

3. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"I. Introduction—Progress of metaphysical hypothesis—Metaphysical hypotheses destined to increasing diversity in details, and increasing agreement on ..."

4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Many hypotheses respecting the cause of the glacial period have been offered, ... Almost all hypotheses appeal to a combination of agencies, ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Many hypotheses respecting the cause of the glacial period have been offered, ... Almost all hypotheses appeal to a combination of agencies, ..."

6. The Methodist Review (1899)
"We speak the truth when we say it is at the demand of hypotheses that had ... In other words, hypotheses are built upon hypotheses; and this we are told is ..."

7. Problems of Science by Federigo Enriques (1914)
"The explicit hypotheses (the postulates of a theory) which, by means of associative relations defining the concepts themselves, express the objective ..."

8. A Text-book of Physics: Heat by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"As examples of hypotheses of this kind, we may instance the ... Our aim, then, must be to frame hypotheses which shall reduce other energies to these forms, ..."

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