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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The process of making guesses.
  • noun An estimate or judgment made by guessing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That which is done by or is due to guess; conjectural action or opinion; random or haphazard action.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an estimate based on little or no information

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