hypotheses
- 1Plural of hypothesis.
Researchers compared several competing hypotheses about the cause of the disease.
Both hypotheses failed to survive rigorous testing.
Note
A plural that keeps its Greek shape: the singular's -is turns into -es, the same change seen in theses, analyses and parentheses, so nothing is added at the end. The plural serves every meaning of the singular. It can name testable conjectures in a laboratory, assumptions granted for the sake of an argument, or, in logic, the antecedents of several conditional statements.
hypotheses is a form of hypothesis
hypothesis, noun: A tentative explanation for an observation or phenomenon that can be tested through further observation, investigation, or experimentation. Full entry
- Forms
- hypothesishypotheses plural
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