Defenition of the word posit
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Defenition of the word posit
- To put before.
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
- place firmly
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
- put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
- put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
- put before
- put (something somewhere) firmly
Synonyms for the word posit
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- conceive
- conjecture
- deposit
- dispose
- fix
- hypothesize
- imagine
- place
- pose
- postulate
- put forward
- set
- situate
- speculate
Similar words in the posit
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- posit
- posited
- positing
- position
- position's
- positional
- positions
- positive
- positiver
- positives
- positivest
- positivism
- positivism's
- positron
- positron's
- positrons
- posits
Hyponyms for the word posit
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- assert
- assumption
- Bayes' postulate
- bury
- insist
- premise
- premiss
- sediment
Hypernyms for the word posit
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- advise
- lay
- place
- pose
- position
- presuppose
- propose
- proposition
- put
- set
- suggest
- suppose
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