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CONJECTURE
- to arrive at or deduce by conjecture [v CONJECTURED, CONJECTURING, CONJECTURES]
- to arrive at or deduce by surmise or guesswork guess.
- An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information
- An unproven mathematical or scientific theorem
- Conjecture is a formal synonym of the verb guess that means “to form an opinion or idea without proof or sufficient evidence.”
- (in textual criticism) The suggestion or reconstruction of a reading of a text not present in the original source