English-French translations for hypothesis

• hypothèse
  Il est donc difficile d'avancer une hypothèse. So it is hard to argue a hypothesis.
  Il est clair que pour les adhésions, il nous fallait une hypothèse de travail. Naturally, we now needed a working hypothesis for the accessions.
  En conséquence, l'hypothèse en question, avec la formule que j'ai mentionnée ici, est impossible. So her hypothesis is not possible under the formula I have put forward here.

Definition of hypothesis

• Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there
• An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation

Related words

• hypothesise
• gateway drug hypothesis
• null hypothesis
• alternative hypothesis
• just-world hypothesis
• efficient-market hypothesis
• cost of reproduction hypothesis
• Riemann hypothesis
• continuum hypothesis