1 : something that is inferred especially : a conclusion or opinion that is formed because of known facts or evidence the inferences fairly drawn from what's been established

The structural alignment process suggests that inferences are made on the basis of systematicity.

Inferences are steps in logical reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word infer means to "carry forward". Inference is theoretically traditionally …

" I 'll grant that, " I said, " although it hardly seems to be an inference. It 's really implicit in the statement. "

An inference is a conclusion that you draw about something by using information that you already have about it. There were two inferences to be drawn from her letter.

[countable] something that you can find out indirectly from what you already know synonym deduction to draw/make inferences from the data The clear inference is that the universe is …

The program uses records of past purchases to make/draw inferences about what customers will buy in the future. What inference can we draw from these facts?

This is evident enough if we look only on the meer surface of the crime [Drunkenness]; but if we dive farther into its inferences and adherencies, the affirmation is yet more irrefragable.

When you make an inference, you're reading between the lines or just looking carefully at the facts and coming to conclusions. You can also make faulty inferences. If you hear a person's …

noun deduction, conclusion, assumption, reading, consequence, presumption, conjecture, surmise, corollary There were two inferences to be drawn from her letter.