Synonym: conjecture, guess, possibility, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise, theory. Similar words: on the spot, hesitate, on the side, resist, resistance, hyper, potato, potentially. Meaning: [haɪ'pɑθɪsɪs / -'pɒθ-] n. 1. a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations 2. a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena 3. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
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121. This project will help us to confirm or reject this hypothesis.
122. This tends to support the hypothesis that although customers will complain about price increases it does not necessarily alter their visiting behaviour.
123. As previously suggested, a researcher is usually interested in setting up a hypothesis which he really would like to reject.
124. Possession of such direct observations on expectations would allow us to test the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis in two ways.
125. These findings support the hypothesis that H pylori colonisation is directly involved in the hypergastrinaemia.
126. The retirement impact hypothesis appeared to spread quickly and to be widely accepted, particularly in governmental and other widely disseminated documents.
127. It points us to the theistic hypothesis rather than to the necessity hypothesis.
128. This hypothesis generates an infinite set of indifference curves which are convex to the L axis.
129. These results support the hypothesis that individuals are willing to pay more in order to live in communities that provide high-quality services.
130. This supports the hypothesis that adaptation is due to visual change.
131. These require more detailed examination in order to determine whether they disprove the hypothesis formulated above.
132. Minor hypotheses are designed in the same manner as the major hypothesis.
133. In Hawaii, many efforts were made to test the vaccination hypothesis.
134. Such results may be explained by the hypothesis that serotonin is more responsible for regulating mood than for controlling alcohol cravings.
135. This study can not provide data to confirm or refute this hypothesis, however.
136. But on the whole,[sentencedict.com/hypothesis.html] a gradually rising population throughout the ninth century seems an acceptable working hypothesis.
137. An alternative hypothesis, which has considerable intuitive plausibility, needs to be refuted before this assumption can be justified.
138. Far from this being the case, it is exactly what might be expected if the theistic hypothesis is true.
139. Isaac Newton solved the final problem in the Copernican hypothesis by demonstrating that planetary motion was caused by gravitation.
140. The evidence, particularly of Willis, would support this working hypothesis.
141. Thus no evidence to support this alternative hypothesis is available.
142. The theistic hypothesis postulates one necessarily actual reality, the mind that conceives all possibilities.
143. The weight of the evidence against the scanning hypothesis for REMs is very great.
144. Essentially, the classic experimental design involves controlling all factors extraneous to the hypothesis of interest in order that this can be tested.
145. It was this criticism of the adaptive expectations hypothesis that led to the development of the rational expectations hypothesis.
146. I don't see what's so sinister about biology as a hypothesis.
147. Decisions to retain or reject an hypothesis are fairly straightforwardly determined by the results of experimental tests.
148. It looks as though here, too, the hypothesis does not account for all the biological facts.
149. Zamboni's hypothesis does not have "a reasonable scientific rationale".
150. Selection of a theory to guide hypothesis testing.
More similar words: on the spot, hesitate, on the side, resist, resistance, hyper, potato, potentially, these, chest, catches, all the same, the same as, as is, resign, beside, design, just the same, for the sake of, besides, designs, assist, subsist, persist, crisis, insist, in the shape of, designer, design for, resident.