INFER


Meaning of INFER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnfɜ:(r) ]

( infers, inferring, inferred)

1.

If you infer that something is the case, you decide that it is true on the basis of information that you already have.

I inferred from what she said that you have not been well...

By measuring the motion of the galaxies in a cluster, astronomers can infer the cluster’s mass.

= deduce

VERB : V that , V n

2.

Some people use infer to mean ‘imply’, but many people consider this use to be incorrect.

The police inferred that they found her behaviour rather suspicious.

VERB : V that

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