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# conjecture

«conjecture» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a guess or opinion formed without full proof** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a conjecture, conjectures; also uncountable); verb (conjecture, conjectures, conjectured, conjecturing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A conjecture is a guess or opinion formed without full proof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#m1)

2) To conjecture is to guess or suppose something when you do not have all the facts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#m2)

3) (maths) A conjecture is a statement mathematicians think is true but have not yet proved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons pupils make a conjecture from patterns («I think all even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8») and then test it. In stories and news it means a guess. Phrases: «pure conjecture», «make a conjecture», «a matter of conjecture».

### examples

- I shall not venture to conjecture. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#x1)
- My conjecture is that the next number in the pattern is 20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#x2)
- Without evidence, what you say is just conjecture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#x3)
- Scientists conjectured that the planet had water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#x4)
- Test your conjecture with more examples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#x5)
- How the stones got there is still a matter of conjecture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#x6)
- A famous conjecture says every even number bigger than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#x7)
- No one knew who the dead stranger was, they could not even form a conjecture; the fragments of wreckage gave no clue to the matter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/#x8)

### note

In maths, a conjecture becomes a «theorem» when it is proved. One counterexample shows a conjecture is false. Formal; everyday words: «guess», «hunch», «theory».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conjecture» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/conjecture/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.