(n.) An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
(v. t.) To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
(v. i.) To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenomenon is conjectured to be caused by the ear's nonlinear compressive transfer characteristic or by a temporal analysis of the stimulus.
(2) We conjecture that postmenopausal and involutional osteoporosis were far advanced before the development of acromegaly, explaining the coexistence of the two conditions.
(3) Now that we know the practice is widespread among physicians in training, we can conjecture that the demand for improper reporting of diagnostic data by sonographers is likely widespread among physicians in practice also.
(4) In connection with this conjecture, the redistribution of blood flow and O2 quantity by hypothermal exposure were calculated using the same circulation model as used in normothermal embryos.
(5) However, the mechanism by which this tolerance develops is currently a matter of conjecture.
(6) A quote from Peter Greste originally stated: "… we have spent three months in prison based on substantiated allegations and conjecture …".
(7) This conjecture was, however, not supported by analyses that considered the positive control compound and a pure chemical as possible reference assays.
(8) We consider two mechanisms to obviate the diffusion limitation problem, and conjecture that at high substrate concentration, H(2)CO(3) reaches the active site by collision with the enzyme molecule, and subsequent surface diffusion to the active site.
(9) It is conjectured that these behavioral qualities may be universal for emotionally healthy individuals and that future research with larger samples may bear this out.
(10) Such specific binding of parasite proteins to immobilised Band-3 supports recent conjecture as to its role as a host receptor during parasite invasion.
(11) I examine the conjecture that the signal for this regulation is the ratio of uncharged tRNA to aminoacyl-tRNA, that this signal controls the concentration of guanosine tetraphosphate, and that the concentration of guanosine tetraphosphate controls transcription of rrn genes.
(12) However, the idiotype expression was not simply related to total immunoglobulin levels and the controlling mechanisms of idiotype expression on different isotypes remain a matter of conjecture.
(13) If the positions of the principal points of the crystalline lens are conjectured, its equivalent power and that of the eye can be calculated as described from ocular dioptrics.
(14) It’s irresponsible and unscientific to make conjectural, trumped-up allegations without deep investigation.” “The FBI is conducting an investigation to identify how and why this occurred,” the department of homeland security said in a statement on Thursday.
(15) There has been much recent conjecture over the apparent source location of the visually evoked potential, particularly in considering the lateralization found in halffield pattern reversal stimulation.
(16) Alternative explanations for its effectiveness remain conjectural.
(17) Since, in equal concentrations, menthol specifically impairs neuronal calcium currents, the results are consistent with the conjecture that in cold receptors, menthol reduces the activation of a calcium-stimulated outward current by an impeding effect on a calcium conductance, thereby inducing depolarization and a modification of bursting behavior.
(18) We conjecture that the efficacy of radioimmunoconjugates against responsive cell types may be the result of passive DNA damage by ionizing radiation and the initiation of apoptosis in response to radioimmunotherapy.
(19) But the fact that the ability to create new explanations is the unique, morally and intellectually significant functionality of "people" (humans and AGIs), and that they achieve this functionality by conjecture and criticism, changes everything.
(20) Since nafenopin pretreatment stimulates the synthesis of new liver tissue, it is presently a matter of conjecture as to whether or not the newly formed hepatocytes have the capacity to take up and excrete BP and its metabolites or whether nafenopin inhibits transport in all liver tissue.
Deduce
Definition:
(v. t.) To lead forth.
(v. t.) To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole.
(v. t.) To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence contained both amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences.
(2) The deduced amino acid sequence contained no consensus sequence indicative of N-glycosylation.
(3) Based on the deduced amino acid sequence, rpL8 has a mass of 28,605 Da, a pI of 11.97, and contains 9.6% Arg and 11.9% Lys.
(4) Examination of the deduced amino acid sequence revealed an apparent homology to cAMP binding sites in several other proteins.
(5) The deduced amino acid sequences of the inserts of these two clones show considerable homology with each other, the sequence of chicken skin beta-galactoside-binding lectin, and eight peptides derived from purified human lung lectin of Mr approximately 14,000.
(6) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(7) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(8) Their structures were deduced as 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1----3)-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl (1----2)-alpha-L-arabinopyranosyl hederagenin 28-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1----6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl ester (VII) and 3-O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl (1----3)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1----3)-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl (1----2)-alpha-L-arabinopyranosyl hederagenin 28-O-beta-glucopyranosyl (1----6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl ester (VIII), based on spectral analysis and chemical evidences as well as results of 2D-HPTLC.
(9) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
(10) Homologies of the amino acid sequences deduced from these cDNA sequences with that of human PVR were 90.2 and 86.4%, respectively.
(11) Since the N-terminal amino acid of the coat protein of PVA was blocked, the position of the putative coat protein cleavage site has been deduced by searching for consensus sequences and by the analogy to other potyviruses.
(12) In aqueous solution at neutral pH, all the COOH-terminal fragments attain a native-like conformation, as judged both by the content of secondary structure deduced from far-ultraviolet CD spectra and by the recognition of rabbit polyclonal antibodies specific for the COOH-terminal region in native thermolysin.
(13) Based on this mechanism the rate equation for the overall reaction was deduced and the various kinetic constants estimated.
(14) Although EI may function extracellularly as well as intracellularly, its deduced sequence lacks a typical cleavable N-terminal signal sequence.
(15) The effects of 6MP in hamster was compared with other species, and with other growth-supressive agents, and it was deduced that the teratogenicity of 6MP is species and tissue specific.
(16) The cleavage sites for the restriction endonucleases BamHI, HindIII, EcoRI, BglII, PvuII, BstEII and PstI were mapped, and the gene organization deduced through heterologous hybridization using different cloned fragments of the rat mitochondrial genome.
(17) The PCR amplified a 375-bp DNA fragment which was cloned and sequenced; the deduced amino acid sequence had significant identity with known TS sequences, including strict conservation of all phylogenetically invariant TS amino acid residues.
(18) The primary structure of the protein deduced from the nucleotide sequence showed that the protein is composed of 189 amino acid residues and has three E-F hand structures that are characteristic for Ca2+-binding sites.
(19) Eight of the lesions contained HPV DNA sequences, and in six of these the sequences were related to HPV 16 as deduced from low-stringency nucleic acid hybridization followed by low- and high-stringency washes.
(20) As deduced from the nucleotide sequence, the gene potentially codes for a novel 86 kd protein with a highly repetitive and conserved nine amino acid sequence motive in the middle part of the protein.