hypothesis

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Main Entry: hy·poth·e·sis
Pronunciation: h-päth--ss
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -e·ses /-sz/
: a proposition tentatively assumed in order to draw out its logical or empirical consequences and test its consistency with facts that are known or may be determined <it appears, then, to be a condition of the most genuinely scientific hypothesis that it be...of such a nature as to be either proved or disproved by comparison with observed facts -- J. S. Mill>