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What does hypothesis mean?

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Noun
  1. (sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
  2. (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
  3. (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.
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Carried to its extreme, this hypothesis suggests that at one time all the matter of the universe was compacted together.
They may not have given sufficient weight to two other factors, one an arguable hypothesis and the other a central fact of British politics.
Saccheri then studied the hypothesis of the acute angle and derived many theorems of non-Euclidean geometry without realising what he was doing.
They do not lend themselves, as entities or wholes, to scientific hypothesis testing.
I think I mostly agree with Chris's hypothesis, albeit with a couple of important qualifications.
According to the heterotroph hypothesis, hydrogen was not a chief component of the atmosphere when life began.

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