speculation
The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subjectThe process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
» That's pure speculation.
Це чистої води спекуляція.
Meaning
9 senses(countable, uncountable)The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
размышле́ниеrazmyšlénije
(countable, uncountable)The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
Spekulation, Betrachtung
спекуля́ціяspekuljácija
(countable, uncountable)A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
Spekulation
предположе́ниеpredpoložénije
(countable, uncountable)An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
Spekulation
спекуля́цияspekuljácija, спекули́рованиеspekulírovanije
спекуля́ціяspekuljácija, ґешефтя́рствоgešeftjárstvo
(countable, uncountable)The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
спекуля́ціяspekuljácija
(countable, uncountable)A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
(countable, uncountable)The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The faculty of sight.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)An act of looking at something; examination, observation.
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Examples
29 sentencesThat's pure speculation.
Це чистої води спекуляція.
That's just speculation.
Це лише припущення.
ruЭто лишь предположение.
deDas ist reine Spekulation.
I don't engage in idle speculation.
This is all speculation.
This is just speculation.
deDas ist reine Spekulation.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
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Origin
From Middle English speculacioun, speculation, from Old French speculation (compare FrenchFrom Middle English speculacioun, speculation, from Old French speculation (compare French spéculation), from Late Latin speculātiō, speculātiōnem, from Latin speculor. Morphologically speculate + -ion.
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Forms
plural: speculations| Singular | speculation |
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Synonyms
9 synonyms- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence):conjecture
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits:venture
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature:meditation
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence:guessconjecturesuppositionsurmisesurmisalhypothesis
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable