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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or involving inference.
- adjective Derived or capable of being derived by inference.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to an inference; deduced or deducible by inference.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Deduced or deducible by inference.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived using
inference
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
- adjective of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- adjective resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
- adjective derived or capable of being derived by inference
- adjective based on interpretation; not directly expressed
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Examples
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Surveying a subset and generalizing the population from which it's drawn is what we call inferential statistics; it's a cornerstone of modern science and social research.
Slashdot 2010
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This group of techniques is commonly known as inferential statistics.
Hypothesis testing 2009
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That is simple race-baiting by inference, what Stuart hall, the great intellectual, calls inferential racism.
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Causes of the latter sort may be called inferential or hypothetical causes to distinguish them from those which are perceived.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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These I may call inferential marks by the wayside, and with what is to follow are surely corroborative evidence strong enough to enable me to assume that I am on the right trail, and that "_Cheekanoo_" and John
John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records William Wallace Tooker 1882
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-- The Sûtras proceed to dispose of the so-called inferential marks.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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When this The fi rst three reasons in the list include the possi - probability is calculated under the alternative bility of terminating the trial based on an interim hypothesis, this (conditional) probability is called inferential analysis.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows martins0105 2009
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It would only explain the existence of those penumbral connections if it was part of the meaning of names and demonstratives that they fill some kind of inferential role.
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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Now here's the key "inferential" point: the macaque brain is only about one-fourth as large as ours, and our neocortex is much larger than the macaque's neocortex, but neuroanato-mists typically agree that the structures in the neocortex of macaques and humans correspond relatively well despite these differences.
'Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others' 2008
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And I would always be very wary of acting on the kind of inferential intelligence that the United States tends to collect.
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