inference

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Pronunciation
/ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/ (UK)
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/ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/ (UK) · [ˈɪɱ.fə.ɹəns] (UK) · [ˈɪɱ.fɹəns] (UK) · /ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/ (US) · [ˈɪɱ.fɚ.əns] (US) · /ˈɪn.fɹəns/ (US) · [ˈɪɱ.fɹəns] (US) · /ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/ · [ˈɪɱ.fə.ɹəns] · [ˈɪɱ.fɹəns]

Definition of inference

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
  2. (countable)That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
    “A key part of McCarthy’s argument, as made in other settings, such as a Larry King evening news show and on a now-infamous Oprah episode, focuses on the fact that children receive more vaccines now than ever before, which she believes corresponds with a rise in autism rates. However, as scientists and others who reject fallacious inferences point out, correlation is not causation.”
  3. (uncountable)Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
  4. (countable)An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.

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Etymology

From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.

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