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Plural of inference

regular plural

The plural of inference is inferences.

Forms of inference

Singularinference /ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/
Pluralinferences
Countablecountable and uncountable

Inferences in a sentence

  • However, as scientists and others who reject fallacious inferences point out, correlation is not causation.2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New...
  • One must be extremely wary of extending such inferences to physical reality itself.2022 April 16, Stephen Boughn, “There Is No Spooky Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics”, in Entropy, volume 24, number 4, →DOI, page…. From the entry spooky action at a distance
  • Less-skilled comprehenders do not know when it is appropriate to draw inferences.2005, Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme, The Science of Reading: A Handbook, page 232. From the entry comprehender
  • Choose the translation that attributes fewer invalid inferences or inconsistencies to the translatees.1960, Willard Van Orman Quine, Word and Object. From the entry translatee
  • Adult-literacy scores have also dropped: Nearly 30 percent of American adults cannot paraphrase or make inferences from a multipage text.2026 July 8, Rose Horowitch, “The End of Reading Is Here”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry paraphrase

Meaning of inference

  1. noun The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
  2. noun That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
  3. noun Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.

Full definition of inference

Questions about the plural of inference

What is the plural of inference?
The plural of inference is inferences.
Is inference countable?
Inference is a countable and uncountable noun.

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