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elicitation

elicitation noun: the act of eliciting.

Noun

elicitation (countable and uncountable, plural elicitations)

  1. The act of eliciting.
    • The exact interpretation of these hyperparameters becomes clearer once you have seen their role in the posterior and, hence, we defer a deeper discussion of prior elicitation until the next section.2003, Gary Koop, Bayesian Econometrics (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.), p. 19
  2. Something that is elicited.

elicitation meaning in Urdu

elicitation in Urdu

elicitation
استنباط isteṉbāt

Forms of elicitation

pluralelicitations

Origin of elicitation

From elicit + -ation.

Words formed from elicitation

Questions about elicitation

What does elicitation mean?
Elicitation means the act of eliciting.
What is elicitation in Urdu?
Elicitation in Urdu is استنباط (isteṉbāt). See Elicitation meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is elicitation?
Elicitation is a noun.
What is the plural of elicitation?
The plural of elicitation is elicitations.

Words near elicitation in the dictionary

  1. elicitable
  2. elicitate
  3. elicitated
  4. elicitates
  5. elicitating
  6. elicitation
  7. elicitations
  8. elicited
  9. eliciteth
  10. elicitin
  11. eliciting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elicitation (page history and authors); استنباط (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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