Usually means: Assumption accepted as true, foundational.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. postulate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. postulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. postulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. postulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. postulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Postulate, postulate: Wordnik
  7. postulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. postulate: Wiktionary
  9. postulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. postulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. postulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. postulate: Dictionary.com
  13. postulate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. postulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Postulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Postulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. postulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. postulate: Rhymezone
  19. postulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. postulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. postulate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. postulate: Free Dictionary
  23. postulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. postulate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. postulate: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. POSTULATE: Accounting Glossary
  2. postulate: Legal dictionary
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. postulate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. postulate: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Postulate: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. postulate: Evolution Glossary
  3. postulate: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
adjective:  Postulated.
verb:  To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.

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