Mots en English pour 'someone who constructs theorems'
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verb
noun
- (logic) A syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system.
- (mathematics) A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called lemmas.
- (mathematics, colloquial, nonstandard) A mathematical statement that is expected to be true.
- a proposition deducible from basic postulates
- an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth
noun
- A mathematician who studies real analysis.
- Someone who is an analytical thinker.
- Someone who analyzes.
- (psychiatry) A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
- A financial analyst; a business analyst.
- (computing) A systems analyst.
- someone who is skilled at analyzing data
- a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
- an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
adj
noun
- One who forms theories; a theorist.
- One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
- (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
- (rugby) Synonym of field goal.
- someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
noun
name
phrase
noun
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of constructing something
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The trade of building structures.
- The manner in which something is built.
- The process of constructing.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
noun
- (mathematics) A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.
- (art) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.
- (architecture) A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.
- (philosophy, psychology, education) A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
- an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
verb
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
noun
- A person who, or thing that, constructs.
- (crosswording, chiefly US) A person who creates crossword puzzles.
- (object-oriented programming) A class method that creates and initializes each instance of an object.
- (automotive) A company which, or individual who, builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors, while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).
- someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
noun
- (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
- An act of inducting.
- (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells.
- (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
- (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
- The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
- (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
- A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
- An act of inducing.
- (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
- (medicine) The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
- stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- a formal entry into an organization or position or office
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time)
adj
- (mathematics) Self-evident.
- (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- (algebra, of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- of little substance or significance
- concerned with trivialities
- (informal) small and of little importance
noun
- a person who creates classifications
- an algorithm that implements classification.
- a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
- A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
- (computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.
- (linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as CJKV languages and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
- Someone who classifies.
- (object-oriented programming) A metaclass used to group other entities having common features.
noun
- A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
- (Philippines) An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.
- A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
verb
noun
- (mathematics) Initialism of probabilistically checkable proof.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of pneumocystis pneumonia.
- (finance) Initialism of personal contract purchase.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of pentachlorophenol.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of peptidyl carrier protein.
- (healthcare) Initialism of primary care practitioner (who may be a physician, a physician assistant, or a nurse practitioner).
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of phenylcyclohexylpiperidine, an alternative name for phencyclidine.
- (psychology) Initialism of personal construct psychology.
- (healthcare) Initialism of primary care physician.
- a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or ‘dust’) for its effects as a hallucinogen
- a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability
name
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a lower limit
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
adj
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
verb
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the most important or necessary part of something
- A physical base or foundation.
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- A regular frequency.
- (agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
- a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies
- (figuratively) That which is prominent, fundamental, noteworthy, or central.
- Such a stone used ceremonially, often inscribed with the architect's and owner's names, dates and other details.
- A stone forming the base at the corner of a building.
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- lowest support of a structure
- a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
- an institution supported by an endowment
- the basis on which something is grounded
- education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
- That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
- The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
- (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
- (figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
- (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
- A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
noun
- A mathematician who studies real analysis.
- Someone who is an analytical thinker.
- Someone who analyzes.
- (psychiatry) A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
- A financial analyst; a business analyst.
- (computing) A systems analyst.
- someone who is skilled at analyzing data
- a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
- an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
noun
- One who forms theories; a theorist.
- One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
- (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
- (rugby) Synonym of field goal.
- someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
noun
name
phrase
noun
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of constructing something
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The trade of building structures.
- The manner in which something is built.
- The process of constructing.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
noun
- (mathematics) A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.
- (art) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.
- (architecture) A style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.
- (philosophy, psychology, education) A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
- an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
noun
- A person who, or thing that, constructs.
- (crosswording, chiefly US) A person who creates crossword puzzles.
- (object-oriented programming) A class method that creates and initializes each instance of an object.
- (automotive) A company which, or individual who, builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors, while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).
- someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)
noun
- (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
- An act of inducting.
- (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells.
- (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
- (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
- The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
- (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
- A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
- An act of inducing.
- (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
- (medicine) The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
- stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- a formal entry into an organization or position or office
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time)
noun
- a person who creates classifications
- an algorithm that implements classification.
- a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
- A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
- (computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.
- (linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as CJKV languages and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
- Someone who classifies.
- (object-oriented programming) A metaclass used to group other entities having common features.
noun
- A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
- (Philippines) An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.
- A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
verb
noun
- (mathematics) Initialism of probabilistically checkable proof.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of pneumocystis pneumonia.
- (finance) Initialism of personal contract purchase.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of pentachlorophenol.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of peptidyl carrier protein.
- (healthcare) Initialism of primary care practitioner (who may be a physician, a physician assistant, or a nurse practitioner).
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of phenylcyclohexylpiperidine, an alternative name for phencyclidine.
- (psychology) Initialism of personal construct psychology.
- (healthcare) Initialism of primary care physician.
- a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or ‘dust’) for its effects as a hallucinogen
- a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability
name
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a lower limit
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
adj
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
verb
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the most important or necessary part of something
- A physical base or foundation.
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- A regular frequency.
- (agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
- a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies
- (figuratively) That which is prominent, fundamental, noteworthy, or central.
- Such a stone used ceremonially, often inscribed with the architect's and owner's names, dates and other details.
- A stone forming the base at the corner of a building.
noun
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- lowest support of a structure
- a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
- an institution supported by an endowment
- the basis on which something is grounded
- education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
- That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
- The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
- (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
- (figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
- (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
- A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
verb
noun
- (logic) A syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system.
- (mathematics) A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called lemmas.
- (mathematics, colloquial, nonstandard) A mathematical statement that is expected to be true.
- a proposition deducible from basic postulates
- an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth
verb
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
adj
adj
- (mathematics) Self-evident.
- (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
- Pertaining to the trivium.
- (algebra, of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof) Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
- Commonplace, ordinary.
- (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
- Concerned with or involving trivia.
- (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
- Ignorable; of little significance or value.
- of little substance or significance
- concerned with trivialities
- (informal) small and of little importance