hypothetical
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hypothetical /ˌhʌɪpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)l/
▶adjective
- 1 based on or serving as a hypothesis.
■ supposed but not necessarily real or true.
- 2 Logic denoting or containing a proposition of the logical form if p then q.
– derivatives
hypothetically adverb.
hypothetically adverb.
'hypothetical' also found in these Oxford entries:
alkahest
- antigravity
- axion
- big crunch
- black body
- caloric
- China syndrome
- cyborg
- Dives
- extraterrestrial
- geoid
- gluon
- graviton
- gravity wave
- Hamitic
- ideal
- ideal gas
- if
- John Doe
- Martian
- missing link
- monopole
- moot
- multiverse
- Nostratic
- notional
- occurrent
- od
- perpetual motion
- photino
- Q
- quantum computer
- schmo
- sight line
- space warp
- string
- subspace
- tachyon
- theory
- Turing machine
- Ural-Altaic
- Wallace's line
- white hole
- WIMP
- wormhole
