Guest: What is a conjecture?
conjecture
kənˈdʒɛktʃə/Submit
noun
1.
an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
"conjectures about the newcomer were many and varied"
synonyms: guess, speculation, surmise, fancy, notion, belief, suspicion, presumption, assumption, theory, hypothesis, postulation, supposition; More
antonyms: fact
an unproven mathematical or scientific theorem.
(in textual criticism) the suggestion of a reading of a text not present in the original source.
verb
verb: conjecture; 3rd person present: conjectures; past tense: conjectured; past participle: conjectured; gerund or present participle: conjecturing
1.
form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information.
"many conjectured that she had a second husband in mind"
synonyms: guess, speculate, surmise, infer, fancy, imagine, believe, think, suspect, presume, assume, hypothesize, take as a hypothesis, theorize, form/formulate a theory, suppose More
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