Past tense of posit

Forms of posit

Posited in a sentence

• Ray's natural theology posited that God was responsible for the near-perfect match between an animal and its environment and encouraged readers to seek evidence for God through the study of nature.2023, Tim Birkhead, Birds and Us, Penguin Books, page 193
• Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.From the entry airship
• Heidegger reposited the question which had earlier been posited by the doctor of monadology, Leibnitz.2013, Ephraim-Stephen Essien, editor, Summa Philosophica: An Introduction to Philosophy and Logic, page 371. From the entry monadology
• A long list of thinkers, both believers and nonbelievers, have posited something like an innate religious instinct.2009 February 28, Peter Steinfels, “Scandanavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry believer
• What is posited as future is just the futureness of a sprout.1990, Daniel Cozort, Unique Tenets of The Middle Way Consequence School: The Systematization of the Philosophy of the Indian Buddhist…. From the entry futureness

Meaning of posit

1. noun Something that is posited; a postulate.
2. noun A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
3. verb To assume the existence of; to postulate.

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Questions about the past tense of posit

What is the past tense of posit?

The past tense of posit is posited.

What is the past participle of posit?

The past participle of posit is posited.

Is posit a regular or irregular verb?

Posit is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.