Antonym: conclusion. Similar words: consumption, bumptious, sumptuous, assume, option, adoption, summation, reception. Meaning: [ə'sʌmpʃn] 
n. 1. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn 2. a hypothesis that is taken for granted 3. the act of taking possession of or power over something 4. celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church 5. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to 6. (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended 7. the act of assuming or taking for granted.
n. 1. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn 2. a hypothesis that is taken for granted 3. the act of taking possession of or power over something 4. celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church 5. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to 6. (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended 7. the act of assuming or taking for granted. 
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121. The guiding assumption was that the school curriculum should differ according to the ability of the child who would follow it.
122. Electronic commerce depends on the unspoken assumption that computers cooperate efficiently for seamless information sharing.
123. Punctuation marks are classified as separate syntactic categories and grammars and transition matrices based around this assumption.
124. As remarked earlier, to treat the corporate sector as acting perfectly competitively is a particularly unsatisfactory assumption.
125. To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice.
126. The underlying assumption of the project is that certain computer-based experiences can help pupils bridge the gap between arithmetical and algebraic thinking.
127. Moreover, the assumption that such differences are inherent has encouraged the development and use of standardised tests to assess child development.
128. There is an assumption that conversational discourse is symmetrical and logical.
129. We rarely sit down to challenge some assumption we have always used.
130. This analysis proceeds on the assumption that resource suppliers are agreeable to these adjustments.
131. The justification for this assumption is that the arbitrage transaction is riskless, and so repayment is guaranteed.
132. We can not adopt a parallel assumption about adult women....
133. Dubos started from the assumption that all organic matter added to the soil eventually undergoes decomposition through the agency of micro-organisms.
134. The fundamental assumption was that Time will always discover and avenge any act of injustice.
135. Fourteen-month-olds, with their innocent assumption that we all want the same thing, give her biscuits.
136. But this assumption is what an opponent of a holist theory of history needs to defend.
137. The main assumption, below, is that various inferences from style may suggest different levels of stylistic affinity.
138. Carry out your let-down on the assumption that you will have to round again.
139. They have questioned the whole underlying design assumption of the private car as a throw-away product.
140. We imagine that the white race, at least, would not acquiesce in this assumption.
141. The final assumption, which is actually a subcategory of the second assumption, may be a bit more tenuous.
142. The second assumption is that the stream can not move backwards on itself, that is, reverse its direction or join itself.
143. But this is precisely the type of assumption statistical calculations of age-related dependency ask us to make.
144. Questioning the tomb assumption for megaliths does not mean that people never thought of them as burial places.
145. This can be shown to be a false assumption,(http://sentencedict.com/assumption.html) however.
146. So does the assumption that the individual working in a department is the primary building block of performance.
147. This is a strong assumption, but it fits well into the approach taken in this study which abstracts from intraindustry heterogeneity.
148. There is therefore a need to question this assumption that aggression is a given element which somehow has to be accounted for.
149. However, such schemes rest on the assumption that the small businessman already has an idea he wishes to develop.
150. Any decision to increase production will also have a built-in assumption that existing supplies will continue unabated.
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