inference
UK /ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/ · US /ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/ noun
Forms inferences inferrence
- noun (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
- noun (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
- noun (uncountable, artificial intelligence) Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
- noun (countable, artificial intelligence) An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.
Synonyms
determination illation verdict award censure choice opinion conclusion decision deduction ergotism judgement/judgment mind result sight take view
Etymology
From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
- noun That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
Etymology [From Infer.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “inference”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details