HYPOTHESISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypothesise mean? 

• HYPOTHESISE (verb)
  The verb HYPOTHESISE has 1 sense:

1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

  Familiarity information: HYPOTHESISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPOTHESISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hypothesise    ... he / she / it hypothesises   
Past simple: hypothesised   
Past participle: hypothesised   
-ing form: hypothesising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; hypothesize; speculate; suppose; theorise; theorize

Context example:

Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

Hypernyms (to "hypothesise" is one way to...):

anticipate; expect (regard something as probable or likely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hypothesise"):

construct; reconstruct; retrace (reassemble mentally)

develop; explicate; formulate (elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses)

Sentence frame:

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 Context examples 

This led the researchers to hypothesise that PAR may also play a role in biomineralisation.

(Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified, University of Cambridge)

Not only is `Oumuamua’s hypothesised outgassing an unsolved mystery, but also its interstellar origin.

(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)

This type of flexing had been hypothesised before and simulated by computer models, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been measured in the field.

(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This type of clustering cannot be explained by our existing eight-planet solar system architecture and has led to some astronomers hypothesising that the unusual orbits could be influenced by the existence of an as-yet-unknown ninth planet.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

When combined with a simplified model of the solar system, the gravitational forces of the hypothesised disc can account for the unusual orbital architecture exhibited by some objects at the outer reaches of the solar system.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained by the combined gravitational force of small objects orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)