conjecture

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

countable formal uncountable obsolete

Japanese Meaning

未証明ながら真実であると考えられる陳述または考え、推測 / 不完全な証拠に基づく仮定、憶測または仮説

Her conjecture about prime numbers sparked a fresh line of research.

彼女の素数に関する予想は、新たな研究の流れを生み出した。

Sense（1）

(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.

Sense（2）

(formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.

The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.

Sense（3）

(mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.

Sense（4）

(obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.

conjectures

（ plural ）