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reinfer

reinfer verb: to infer again.

Verb

reinfer (third-person singular simple present reinfers, present participle reinferring, simple past and past participle reinferred)

  1. to infer again.
    • One can reinfer only on the condition of having forgotten. It is customary to speak of evidence as inferring the conclusion. This of course is figurative. What does not seem to the subject to be discovery is not inference.1882, Edmund R. Clay, The Alternative: A Study in Psychology, page 51
    • The revision process consists of utilizing environmentally derived cues to reinfer each attribute of θ by the identification method.1964, American Psychological Association, Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, page 31

Forms of reinfer

third-person singular presentreinfers
present participlereinferring
past participlereinferred
pastreinferred

Origin of reinfer

From re- + infer.

Questions about reinfer

What does reinfer mean?
Reinfer means to infer again.
What part of speech is reinfer?
Reinfer is a verb.
What is the past tense of reinfer?
The past tense of reinfer is reinferred.

Words near reinfer in the dictionary

  1. reinfecting
  2. reinfection
  3. reinfections
  4. reinfectious
  5. reinfects
  6. reinfer
  7. reinfest
  8. reinfestant
  9. reinfestants
  10. reinfestation
  11. reinfestations

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