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inferences

inferences is the plural of inference.

Meaning of inference

Noun

inference (countable and uncountable, plural inferences)

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
  2. (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
    • A key part of McCarthy’s argument, as made in other settings, such as a Larry King evening news show and on a now-infamous Oprah episode, focuses on the fact that children receive more vaccines now than ever before, which she believes corresponds with a rise in autism rates. However, as scientists...2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page...
  3. (uncountable, artificial intelligence) Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
  4. (countable, artificial intelligence) An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.

Phrases with inferences

Questions about inferences

What is inferences the plural of?
Inferences is the plural of inference.

Words near inferences in the dictionary

  1. Inferagrarian
  2. inference
  3. inference rule
  4. inference rules
  5. inference to the best explanation
  6. inferences
  7. inferencing
  8. inferent
  9. inferential
  10. inferential statistics
  11. inferentialism

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