conjecture

UK /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃə/ · CA, US /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃɚ/

Etymology From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject. Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)).

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abc conjecture, Beal conjecture, Beal's conjecture, Brocard's conjecture, Collatz conjecture, conjecturingly, Cramér's conjecture, Dickson's conjecture, Dixmier conjecture, double bubble conjecture, Elliott-Halberstam conjecture, Fuglede's conjecture, Gilbreath's conjecture, Goldbach's conjecture, Heawood conjecture, Hedetniemi's conjecture, honeycomb conjecture, Ilieff's conjecture, Jacobian conjecture, Keller's conjecture, Langlands conjecture, Legendre's conjecture, Lehmer's conjecture, Leopoldt's conjecture, Mach's conjecture, metaconjecture, Meyniel's conjecture, misconjecture, Oesterlé-Masser conjecture, Pacman conjecture, Poincaré conjecture, Polignac's conjecture, Pólya's conjecture, Ramanujan conjecture, Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture, Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture, Sendov's conjecture, Singmaster's conjecture, SYZ conjecture, Szpiro's conjecture, Thurston's geometrization conjecture, twin prime conjecture, Zarankiewicz's crossing number conjecture

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conject, conjectural