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theories

/ˈθiːəɹiz/

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Théories, hypothèses

A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.

Examples :

"Scientists develop theories to explain how the universe works. "

Les scientifiques développent des théories pour expliquer le fonctionnement de l'univers.

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Théories, réflexions

Mental conception; reflection, consideration.

Examples :

"After hours of contemplation, she shared her theories about why the business failed, hoping to learn from the experience. "

Après des heures de contemplation, elle a partagé ses théories sur les raisons de l'échec de l'entreprise, dans l'espoir de tirer des leçons de l'expérience.

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Théories, hypothèses

Examples :

"Scientists develop theories to explain how the universe works. "

Les scientifiques développent des théories pour expliquer le fonctionnement de l'univers.

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Principes, fondements

The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.

Examples :

"While Maria understood the theories of photography from her textbook, she needed practice to take good pictures. "

Bien que Maria comprenne les principes de la photographie grâce à son manuel, elle avait besoin de pratique pour prendre de bonnes photos.

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Théories

A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.

Examples :

"Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space."

La théorie des nœuds classe les applications d'un cercle dans l'espace à 3 dimensions.

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Hypothèse, conjecture

A hypothesis or conjecture.

Examples :

"Sentence: Scientists have many theories about what caused the dinosaurs to disappear. "

Les scientifiques ont de nombreuses hypothèses sur ce qui a causé la disparition des dinosaures.

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Théories

A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).

Examples :

"A theory is consistent if it has a model."

Une théorie est consistante si elle a un modèle.

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