Usually means: Suggested or assumed as true.
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  1. postulated: Merriam-Webster
  2. postulated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. postulated: Vocabulary.com
  4. postulated: Wordnik
  5. postulated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. postulated: Wiktionary
  7. Postulated, postulated: Dictionary.com
  8. postulated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Postulated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. postulated: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Postulated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. postulated: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Postulated: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. postulated: Legal dictionary

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  1. postulated: Encyclopedia

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  1. postulated: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (postulate)

noun:  Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
noun:  A fundamental element; a basic principle.
noun:  (logic) An axiom.
noun:  A requirement; a prerequisite.
verb:  To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
verb:  (ambitransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
verb:  (ambitransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.
adjective:  Postulated.
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