English-Estonian translations for theory

• teooria
  See on teooria, mis on tõestusest veel väga kaugel. It is a theory and a very long way from proof.
  Keegi peab ju teooria ellu viima. After all, someone has to put theory into practice.
  Vähemalt on see nii teoorias, kuid reaalsus on mitmeti erinev. At least, that is the theory, but the reality is rather different.

Definition of theory

• A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate
• A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
• The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
• A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
• A hypothesis or conjecture.
• A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; ''or'', a set of statements which are . ''Equivalently,'a formal language plus a set of axioms . The statements may be required to all be bound (''i.e.'', to have no free variables

Examples

• Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.
• A theory is consistent if it has a model.

Related words

• theorise
• theorize