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working hypothesis

working hypothesis noun: a hypothesis that is weakly held, tentatively, as a best guess; such a hypothesis among several plausible ones that is driving or underpinning a scientific team's work at a given time.

Noun

working hypothesis (plural working hypotheses)

  1. A hypothesis that is weakly held, tentatively, as a best guess; such a hypothesis among several plausible ones that is driving or underpinning a scientific team's work at a given time.
    • Among these several hypotheses, the one judged as most likely was our working hypothesis during the autumn semester.
    • We do not know that this is the case, but it is an hypothesis which cannot be refuted and is simpler than any other possible hypothesis. I shall therefore adopt it as a working hypothesis in what follows.1927, Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Philosophy

working hypothesis meaning in Tamil

working hypothesis in Tamil

பயன்படுகருதுகோள்

Examples of working hypothesis in a sentence

  • By a process of elimination of the various possibilities we have set up a working hypothesis that the rock-cut installation was for the purpose of making and storing wine.1964, James B. Pritchard, Winery, Defenses, and Soundings at Gibeon:
  • This working hypothesis, although a good idea at the time, led to a number of inconsistencies.1968, Donald D. Clayton, Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis:
  • Brand thinks it is a "plausible working hypothesis" that properties are legitimate objects, as good as "specifiable groupings of particulars" - which presumably sets or classes are.1979, R. M. Martin, Pragmatics, Truth, and Language:

Forms of working hypothesis

pluralworking hypotheses

Questions about working hypothesis

What does working hypothesis mean?
Working hypothesis means a hypothesis that is weakly held, tentatively, as a best guess; such a hypothesis among several plausible ones that is driving or underpinning a scientific team's work at a given time.
What is working hypothesis in Tamil?
Working hypothesis in Tamil is பயன்படுகருதுகோள். See Working hypothesis meaning in Tamil.
How do you use working hypothesis in a sentence?
By a process of elimination of the various possibilities we have set up a working hypothesis that the rock-cut installation was for the purpose of making and storing wine.
What part of speech is working hypothesis?
Working hypothesis is a noun.
What is the plural of working hypothesis?
The plural of working hypothesis is working hypotheses.

Words near working hypothesis in the dictionary

  1. working hard or hardly working
  2. working horse
  3. working horses
  4. working hours
  5. working hypotheses
  6. working hypothesis
  7. working in
  8. working into the ground
  9. working knowledge
  10. working language
  11. working languages

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