Meaning

4 senses
  1. (uncountable)The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

    Schlussfolgern, Schlussfolgerung, Folgerung

    рассужде́ниеrassuždénije, умозаключе́ниеumozaključénije

    висновокvysnovok

  2. (countable)That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

    Schlussfolgerung, Folgerung, Konklusion

    вы́водvývod, заключе́ниеzaključénije

  3. (uncountable)Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.

  4. (countable)An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.

More definitions
  • the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation

Examples

5 sentences
  1. In certain situations, inferences are needed.

  2. Is this an observation or an inference?

  3. You must draw inferences but not speculate.

  4. Select the statements which are observations rather than inferences.

  5. Type inference has three outputs whereas checking only has two.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act or process of inferring by deduction or induction:
Русский
By meaning 2
act or process of inferring by deduction or induction:
that which is inferred:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
act or process of inferring by deduction or induction:
that which is inferred:

Origin

From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.

From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.

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Forms

plural: inferences

Synonyms

18 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation:illation

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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