inferential
pronunciation
How to pronounce inferential in British English: UK [ˌɪnfə'renʃəl]
How to pronounce inferential in American English: US [ˌɪnfə'renʃəl]
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- Adjective:
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
- derived or capable of being derived by inference
- based on interpretation; not directly expressed
Word Origin
- inferential (adj.)
- 1650s, from Medieval Latin inferentia (see inference) + adj. suffix -al (1).
Example
- 1. Develop literal and inferential listening and reading comprehension .
- 2. Vicarious learning and inferential accuracy in adoption processes .
- 3. Inferential links from a phenomenon to a use .
- 4. Research on an new adaptive inferential control cvcf power supply .
- 5. On monotonic inferential relationships of quantified structures in natural language .