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inference.

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/UK[ˈɪɱ.fə.ɹəns]UK[ˈɪɱ.fɹəns]UK/ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/Canada, US
  1. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

    uncountable
  2. That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

    countable
  3. Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.

    uncountable
  4. An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.

    countable
Where this word comes from

From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.

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