English-Swedish translations for theory

• teori en
  Det är en teori som ligger mycket långt ifrån bevisade fakta.It is a theory and a very long way from proof.
  Enligt min åsikt lämnar denna teori en hel del övrigt att önska.In my view, that theory leaves a lot to be desired.
  En ny teori uppstod: att bankerna var alltför stora för att ”gå under”.A new theory came into being - they were too big to fail.

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