conjecture英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess. countable,formal,uncountable

— I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis. countable,formal,uncountable

— The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven. countable,uncountable
Interpretation of signs and omens. countable,obsolete,uncountable

动词 v.

To guess; to venture an unproven idea. formal,intransitive

— I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
To infer on slight evidence; to guess at. transitive

— February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)

词形变化

conjectures plural conjectures present,singular,third-person conjecturing participle,present conjectured participle,past conjectured past

词汇关系

衍生词

abc conjecture Beal conjecture Beal's conjecture Brocard's conjecture Collatz conjecture conjecturingly Cramér's conjecture Dickson's conjecture Dixmier conjecture double bubble conjecture Elliott-Halberstam conjecture Fuglede's conjecture Gilbreath's conjecture Goldbach's conjecture Heawood conjecture Hedetniemi's conjecture honeycomb conjecture Ilieff's conjecture Jacobian conjecture Keller's conjecture Langlands conjecture Legendre's conjecture Lehmer's conjecture Leopoldt's conjecture Mach's conjecture metaconjecture Meyniel's conjecture Oesterlé-Masser conjecture Pacman conjecture Poincaré conjecture Polignac's conjecture Pólya's conjecture Ramanujan conjecture Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture Sendov's conjecture Singmaster's conjecture SYZ conjecture Szpiro's conjecture Thurston's geometrization conjecture twin prime conjecture Zarankiewicz's crossing number conjecture misconjecture conjecturability conjecturable unconjectured

词源

词源 1

From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject.
Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)).

词源 2

From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject.
Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)).