English
Etymology
Latin illatio, from the past participle stem of inferre.
Pronunciation
IPA: /ɪ'leɪʃən/
Noun
en-noun
- the act of inferring or concluding
#:*1974: Adriaan moved to Pierce’s American illation whereby an if begets a therefore, event by event, the javelin’s flight issuing from the web of contingencies in which we may locate the javelin and the javelineer — Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
- an inference, a deduction or conclusion
vi:illation
zh:illation
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