Definition of Conjectures. Meaning of Conjectures. Synonyms of Conjectures

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Definition of Conjectures

Conjecture
Conjecture Con*jec"ture (; 135?), n. [L. conjectura, fr. conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture; con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See Jet a shooting forth.] An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. --Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. --Milton.
Conjecture
Conjecture Con*jec"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conjectured; p. pr. & vb. n. Conjecturing.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. Conject.] To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. --South.
Conjecture
Conjecture Con*jec"ture, v. i. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

Meaning of Conjectures from wikipedia

- Poincaré conjecture), Fermat's Last Theorem, and others. Conjectures disproven through counterexample are sometimes referred to as false conjectures (cf....
- and Michael Artin for attacking the Weil conjectures, as outlined in Grothendieck (1960). Of the four conjectures, the analogue of the Riemann hypothesis...
- In mathematics, the Arthur conjectures refer to a set of conjectures proposed by James Arthur in 1989. These conjectures pertain to the properties of...
- are several conjectures made by Emil Artin: Artin conjecture (L-functions) Artin's conjecture on primitive roots The (now proved) conjecture that finite...
- algebraic groups Serre's modularity conjecture, concerning Galois representations Serre's multiplicity conjectures in commutative algebra Ribet's theorem...
- The Morita conjectures in general topology are certain problems about normal spaces, now solved in the affirmative. The conjectures, formulated by Kiiti...
- "Results and conjectures about practical numbers". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. 299: 895–898. Melfi, G. (1996). "On two conjectures about practical...
- became the multiplicity conjectures, and are challenging to prove in the general case. (The statements of these conjectures can be generalized so that...
- The Tait conjectures are three conjectures made by 19th-century mathematician Peter Guthrie Tait in his study of knots. The Tait conjectures involve concepts...
- numerical equivalence. Like the Hodge conjecture, the Tate conjecture would imply most of Grothendieck's standard conjectures on algebraic cycles. Namely, it...