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00860611-a:
concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations
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in a manner involving or inclined to conjecture and supposition
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by hypothesis
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05773923-n:
reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
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05779712-n:
the cognitive process of supposing
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a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
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a hypothesis that is taken for granted
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a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
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for the most part
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05823932-n:
your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief
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a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
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a hypothetical three-dimensional visual world created by a computer; user wears special goggles and fiber optic gloves etc., and can enter and move about in this world and interact with objects as if inside it
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00862718-a:
hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
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a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
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a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another
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hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
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a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant length
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a hypothetical computer with an infinitely long memory tape
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05781145-n:
an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations
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a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.
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a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
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a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make
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a hypothetical substance believed to maintain life indefinitely; once sought by alchemists
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(astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun
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a mock court where law students argue hypothetical cases
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a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
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a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
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09336853-n:
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
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09345792-n:
a hypothetical particle with a single magnetic pole instead of the usual two
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(plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
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(microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins
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(physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3
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(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
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a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time
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a hypothetical quark with a charge of +2/3 and a mass more than 100,000 times that of an electron
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a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe
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a hypothetical average man
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hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings
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a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed
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a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter
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(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
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(cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the universe; it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force
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hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold
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a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning
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a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces
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the hypothetical acid (H2Cr2O7) from which dichromates are derived; known only in solution and in the form of dichromate salts
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a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid
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hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists
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