Usually means: Tentative explanation based on evidence.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word hypothesis:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypothesis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hypothesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hypothesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hypothesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hypothesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hypothesis, hypothesis: Wordnik
  7. hypothesis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hypothesis: Wiktionary
  9. hypothesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hypothesis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hypothesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hypothesis: Dictionary.com
  13. hypothesis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hypothesis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hypothes.is, Hypothesis (album), Hypothesis (disambiguation), Hypothesis (drama), Hypothesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hypothesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hypothesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hypothesis: Rhymezone
  19. hypothesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hypothesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hypothesis: Free Dictionary
  22. hypothesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hypothesis: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. hypothesis: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypothesis: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Hypothesis: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  3. hypothesis: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hypothesis: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. hypothesis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hypothesis: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. hypothesis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. hypothesis: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Bird On! (No longer online)
  4. Hypothesis: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. Hypothesis: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  7. hypothesis: Evolution Glossary
  8. hypothesis: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  9. Hypothesis: Physic and Astronomy Glossary
  10. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  11. hypothesis: Natural History Terms
  12. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hypothesis: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (sciences) A tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem and that can be tested by further observation, investigation, and/or experimentation.
noun:  (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
noun:  (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.

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