hypothesis

单词音标

hypothesis音标[hai\'pɒθәsis]

汉语翻译

n. 假设

【化】 假设

【医】 假说

【经】 假设

词型变化

名词复数:hypotheses

英语解释

名词 hypothesis:

a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations

a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

同义词：possibility, theory

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

同义词：guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation

例句

Science continued to throw up discoveries which further backed up his hypothesis.

科学不断地提供新的发现，从而进一步证实了他的假设。

Several conclusions flow from this hypothesis.

从这项假设中可以得出几个结论。

All these fact have borne out the hypothesis.

所有这些事实证明了假设的正确性。

详细解释

hy.poth.e.sis

n.（名词）

【复数】 hy.poth.e.ses[-sôz.] 缩写 hyp.,hypoth.

A tentative explanation that accounts for a set of facts and can be tested by further investigation; a theory.

前提：对一系列事实进行说明的暂时解释，它能被进一步的调查检验；一个理论

Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption.

假设：为了争论或调查而被认为是真实的事物；一个假想

The antecedent of a conditional statement.

一个条件句前提

来源：

Latin [subject for a speech]

拉丁语 [用于讲话]

from Greek hupothesis [proposal, supposition]

源自 希腊语 hupothesis [假设，设想]

from hupotithenai [to suppose]

源自 hupotithenai [假设]

hupo- [hypo-]

hupo- [前缀，.在…之下.]

tithenai [to place] * see dhô-

tithenai [放置] *参见 dhô-