Theory
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- An unproven conjecture.
- I have a theory about who broke into the school last night, but I have no proof to back it up.
- An expectation of what should happen, barring unforeseen circumstances.
- So we’ll be there in three hours? — That’s the theory.
- A coherent statement or set of statements that attempts to explain observed phenomena.
- There is now a well-developed theory of electrical charge.
- A logical structure that enables one to deduce the possible results of every experiment that falls within its purview.
- The theory of relativity was proposed by Einstein.
- A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
- Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.
- A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them.
- A theory is consistent if it has a model.
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